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Standards Framework Report #1

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Section 3 - Scope

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.

[ contents | section 1 | section 2 | section 4 | section 5 | section 6 | section 7 ]


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