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Metadata Watch Report #6 and Standards Framework Report #3
[ contents | section 1 | section 2 | section 3 | section 5 | Appendix A | Appendix B | Appendix C ]
Section 4 - Results
Only the standardisation activities that had recent news on their Web sites are listed below. For a fuller description of these and other standardisation activities, please refer to the SCHEMAS Standards Framework Report #2. Fuller descriptions of some of the standards activities listed are included in the domain-specific appendixes.
Models
CIDOC CRM MODEL
In July 2001, the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model Special Interest Group published a document “CRM Scope Definition” as a proposal of the Steering Committee of the CIDOC CRM SIG.
URL: http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/
Contact: Martin Doerr, martin@ics.forth.gr
OAIS (Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System)
In May 2001, the Twelfth International OAIS Workshop was held in San Francisco.
In June 2001, a new Draft Recommendation with version 2 of the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) – the Red Book – was released on the OAIS Web site.
URL: http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/ref_model.html
Contact: Don Sawyer, sawyer@ncf.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Basic
ISO 11179
In May 2001, a final committee draft became available for ISO 11179-3 Registry Metamodel for ballot by national standards bodies until October 2001.
URL: http://www.sdct.itl.nist.gov/~ftp/L8/11179/
Contact: Douglas D. Mann, mannd@battelle.org
RDF (Resource Description Framework)
RDF was discussed in the Semantic Web Track at this year’s World Wide Web conference in Hong Kong in May 2001.
In September 2001, three new working drafts became available on the Semantic Web Activity’s Web site: Refactoring RDF/XML Syntax, RDF Test Cases, and RDF Model Theory.
Contact: Eric Miller, em@w3.org
Cross-domain
Dublin Core
One new DCMI Recommendation was released: version 2 of Using Dublin Core (June 2001). Three architectural documents were released as Proposed Recommendation in September 2001 for public comment until October 2001: The DCMI Namespace Policy, RDF/XL Expression of Simple Dublin Core and RDF/XML Expression of Qualified Dublin Core.
In October, NISO, the US National Information Standards Organization and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) announced the approval by ANSI of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (Z39.85-2001) as an US National Standard.
In October, the annual Dublin Core meeting was held in Tokyo, Japan, with a workshop and a conference under the title “DC-2001: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001”.
Contact: Stu Weibel, weibel@oclc.org
Domain-specific
a) Publishing
ONIX (Online Information eXchange)
ONIX Release 2.0 appeared over July and August. See the Appendix on the Publishing domain.
URL: http://www.editeur.org/onix.html
Contact: Brian Green, brian@bic.org.uk
b) Audio-visual
MPEG (Moving Pictures Expert Group)
In July 2001, an overview of MPEG-21 was published, including a status report and a timetable for standardisation. At the same time, a document specifying MPEG-21 Requirements for a Rights Data Dictionary and a Rights Expression Language was issued, together with a Call for Proposals for a Rights Data Dictionary and a Rights Expression Language with a submission deadline of 21 November 2001.
URL: http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/
Contact: Rob Koenen, rkoenen@intertrust.com
c) Education
IMS
In August 2001, the Ottawa communiqué (“Harmonization of Meta-Data for Education and Training Communities”) was released as a result of the Ottawa Metadata Summit with representatives from IEEE/LOM, IMS and DCMI. This is described in more detail in the Appendix on the Educational Domain.
Also in August, version 1 of the Digital Repositories White Paper was published. See the Appendix on the Educational Domain.
In September 2001, version 1.2.1 of the IMS Learning Resource Meta-Data Information Model was released, which corrects errata from the previous version.
URL: http://www.imsproject.org/
Contact: Kevin Riley, kriley@eloki.fsnet.co.uk
d) Research, academic
CERIF (Common European Research Information Format)
Due to limited resources at the European Commission for the follow up of the CERIF2000 initiative, the core implementation effort of the latter is now in the hands of EuroCRIS (the European Current Research Information Systems).
Contact: Keith Jeffery, K.G.Jeffery@rl.ac.uk
e) Government, geospatial, environment
GILS (Global Information Locator Service)
In June 2001, GILS published documents describing the GILS Topic Tree. One hierarchical sample is available as well as full alphabetic and hierarchical versions.
URL: http://www.gils.net/
Contact: Eliot Christian, echristi@usgs.gov
[ contents | section 1 | section 2 | section 3 | section 5 | Appendix A | Appendix B | Appendix C ]
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