Metadata Watch Report #6 and Standards Framework Report #3

Section 1 - Introduction

This deliverable combines the sixth Metadata Watch Report and third Standards Framework Report from the SCHEMAS project.

As specified in the project objectives, the purpose of the SCHEMAS Metadata Watch (MD Watch) is to provide a quarterly overview of world-wide progress in the metadata field, which includes work on metadata sets, schemas, frameworks, registries, and the tools needed to create and use all of these.

The Standards Framework is aimed at mapping this wide diversity of metadata standardisation to application areas and to provide information to implementers about what is going on, what they could use and where they can find information about how to use certain standards

This report contains domain reports on the sectors Education, Government and Publishing sectors.

Section 2 - Objective

This sixth metadata watch report is different from the previous five in that it combines the metadata watch report with the standards framework report. Since considerable overlap has been identified between both in the past it was decided to merge the two reports to form one in the future.

Section 3 - Methodology

The Web sites of the activities that were described in the SCHEMAS Standards Framework Report #2 were visited. Recent news and announcements were used in the descriptions in section 4 below.

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