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Metadata Watch Report #3

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Section 6 - References

[1] Home page for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative working group on Registries.
URL: http://purl.org/dc/groups/registry.htm

[2] Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel: Application profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas. Ariadne, Issue 25, September 2000.
URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/app-profiles/

[3] Introduction to the second SCHEMAS Workshop: Publishing and sharing your metadata application profile. A two-day workshop, 23-24th November 2000, Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, Germany.
URL: http://www.schemas-forum.org/workshops/ws2/schemas-ws2.html

Appendix A. Application profiles for audio-visual sector

 

Digital Platform

http://www.digitaalplatform.nl

European Chronicles Online (ECHO)

http://pc-erato2.iei.pi.cnr.it/echo/

Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland

http://www.den.nl

Elements

Proprietary list of app.210 attributes :

-identification area

-production area

-administrative area

-descriptive area

-technical area

-language area

To be mapped with SMPTE

Metadatadictionary, DC, IFLA Model, SMEF model BBC and MPEG-7.

Using EBU AV-Genre Classification Escort 2.4

Basic list of attributes based on a selection from the current catalogue practice of the 4 content providers (NAA, INA, Instituto Luce, Memoriav) plus metadata fields for automated indexing of speech, closed captions and and images.

Referencelist: DC

Combined with selection of metadata used by participating collections, museums and archives

Schemes

Proprietary datamodel

To be mapped with SMEF

IFLA data model, adjusted to ECHO environment/requirements

Not yet decided

Technology binding

RDBMS, web based

RDBMS, web based

XML

 

Appendix B. Application profiles for educational sector

 

ARIADNE

DC-EDUCATION

EDNA

EUN Schoolnet

GEM

IMS

NEEDS, SMETE

Elements

LOM
(version 5), with 23 mandatory elements

DC
with additional elements:

  • audience (as in LOM)
  • educational standard
  • interactivity type (from LOM)
  • interactivity level (from LOM)
  • typical learning time (from LOM) and qualifiers
  • conformsTo for Relation

DC
with additional elements:

  • entered
  • approver
  • reassessment
  • user level
  • categories
  • conditions
  • indexing
  • review
  • version

DC
with additional elements:

  • rights
  • approver
  • release
  • user level
  • version

DC
with additional elements:

  • audience
  • cataloging
  • duration
  • essential resources
  • grade
  • pedagogy
  • quality
  • standards

LOM
(version 3.5), with some minor modifications that have been integrated in subsequent versions of LOM and 20 core elements

own set (for search):
title, contributor, publisher, subject heading, affiliates keywords, platform, MIME type

Schemes

own list of disciplines, subdisciplines and concepts

  
  • Dates: ISO8601
  • own list of types
  • own list of user levels
  • own list (for Australian context) for coverage
  

controlled vocabulary for:

  • audience
  • format
  • grade
  • language
  • pedagogy
  • relation
  • resource type
  • subject

suggestions (often multiple, with their origin and suggested applicability) for 12 elements

list of MIME types, affiliates and platforms

Technology binding

XML, DBMS

  

HTML META tags

    

XML DTD

  

 

 

Appendix C. Application profiles for geographical information sector

 

FGDC

ANZLIC

NGDF

ESMI

Elements

Own set: 220 elements composed of compound and data elements

Own set: 32 elements grouped in 9 categories based on the FGDC work

Own set: 42 elements, inspired from the ISO Standard 15046-15

9 elements composed of sub-elements based on the CEN/TC 287 standard

Schemes

List of extended elements but no specific controlled lists

No specific controlled lists

Use of a thesaurus based on predefined NGDF keywords and the HASSET thesaurus (Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus)

Controlled list for the thesaurus for the following elements:

  • Language
  • Overall positional accuracy
  • Datum
  • Ellipsoid
  • Map projection
  • Vertical Datum
  • Term
  • Restrictions on use
  • Price information
  • Organisation role
  • Point of contact role
  • Formats

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