Standards Framework Report #1

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Standards Framework Report #1

Section 7 - Overall Conclusions

This first edition of the Standards Framework Report analyses and describes 21 metadata standardisation initiatives. These initiatives cover a wide range of domains and material types.

Many of these 21 initiatives are liaised to each other, with an emerging central role for Dublin Core. To harmonise the standards and to foster interoperability it is essential that co-operation is further strengthened and expanded.

Web-technologies like RDF and XML will play an important role in facilitating interoperability in the future. Many of the 21 initiatives covered by this report are using XML to different degrees.

Annex 1: Short description of the domains

Domain	Includes
Industry	manufacturing software vendors hardware vendors telecommunication operators Internet Service Providers Search engines services banking and insurance advertising retail
Publishing	book trade and distribution music/video/multimedia distribution music recording industry scientific journals news agencies newspapers copyright management
Audio-visual	film industry broadcast production and archiving multimedia production
Cultural Heritage	libraries library services museums museum portals archives
Academic	university and higher education projects subject gateways W3C initiatives
Education and training	interactive courseware life-long learning distance learning schools curricula
Research	research laboratories company research professional societies
GIS	geospatial information providers
Other	transport operators mail and delivery services health care government services environmental information statistics

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