The metadata standardisation initiatives that are analysed in this Standards Framework Report are summarised in Table 1. Some of these initiatives are actually platforms covering several standardisation initiatives while some are standardisation initiatives that form part of a platform. The 21 initiatives that we have selected cover a total of 89 separate standards and specifications.
Table 1: Overview of the standardisation initiatives covered by the Standards Framework Report
| |
Short name |
Full Name |
Platform |
No. of standards |
|
1 |
BSR |
Basic Semantic Registry |
ISO TC 154 WG1 |
1 |
|
2 |
CEN/ISSS Workshop Learning Technologies |
CEN/ISSS Workshop Learning Technologies |
CEN/ISSS |
1 |
|
3 |
CEN TC 251 |
Health Informatics |
CEN TC 251 |
1 |
|
4 |
CERIF |
Common European Research Information Format |
CERIF |
1 |
|
5 |
Dublin Core |
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative |
Dublin Core |
2 |
|
6 |
GELOS |
Global Environmental Locator System Standard Element Set |
GELOS |
1 |
|
7 |
GILS |
Government Information Locator Service |
GILS |
1 |
|
8 |
IMS project |
IMS Learning Resource Metadata Information Model |
IMS Global Learning Consortium. |
1 |
|
9 |
ISO TC 46 SC4 |
Information and Documentation: Computer applications in information and documentation; |
ISO TC 46 SC4 |
26 |
|
10 |
ISO TC 46 SC9 |
Information and documentation: Presentation, identification and description of documents |
ISO TC 46 SC9 |
30 |
|
11 |
ISO/IEC JTC 1 / SC 32 |
Data management and Interchange; WG Metadata |
ISO/IEC JTC 1 / SC 32 |
3 |
|
12 |
LOM |
Learning Object Metadata |
IEEE |
1 |
|
13 |
MARC 21 formats |
Machine Readable Cataloguing |
MARC 21 |
11 |
|
14 |
MPEG-21 |
Moving Pictures Expert Group: Digital Audio-visual Framework |
MPEG |
1 |
|
15 |
MPEG-4 |
Moving Pictures Expert Group: Coding of audio-visual Objects |
MPEG |
1 |
|
16 |
MPEG–7 |
Moving Pictures Expert Group: Multimedia Content Description Interface |
MPEG |
1 |
|
17 |
NetCDF |
Network Common Data Form |
NetCDF |
1 |
|
18 |
PDS |
Planetary Data System |
PDS |
2 |
|
19 |
RDF |
Resource Description Framework |
W3C |
1 |
|
20 |
SMPTE |
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
SMPTE |
2 |
|
21 |
VRA |
Visual Resources Association Data Standards Committee |
VRA |
1 |
The remainder of this report is an analysis of these 21 metadata standardisation initiatives.