Metadata Online Resources

I started to compile a list of online resources on metadata and other fun topics. This is a work in progress, and I'll probably update it by editing this post. Also, here's a link to a more complete Word document with more annotations and hyperlinks on additional worthy topics like examples of Digital Asset Management systems, conference archives, and a growing list of related stuff.

Here's a bit of what's in my evolving "resource document":

Open Source Public Broadcasting Online Resources

The case for shared metadata standards
FAQs for those of us who don't know what that means
In case you haven't followed recent developments in metadata (few have!) and didn't read Steven Vedro's article "Why metadata matters" in Current last September, you may feel as if you've missed a meeting on the subject. Consider this a make-up class. The article was commissioned by CPB.
Originally published in Current, May 13, 2002
By Mary Jane McKinven
http://www.current.org/tech/tech0209metadata.html


Why metadata matters: it greases digital wheels
Originally published in Current, Sept. 10, 2001
By Steven Vedro
http://www.current.org/dtv/dtv0116meta.html


PBCore: WELCOME TO THE PBCore Metadata Dictionary
The Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Project is a cross-organizational, multi-disciplined effort to establish a standard for all public broadcasting content (radio and television), in order that metadata might be more easily exchanged between colleagues, software systems, institutions, community partners, individual citizens, etc. The Project will be a “touchstone,” a single, streamlined standard to which other database structures, including those of PBS, NPR, major producing stations, and other asset/content management systems will be “mapped.” It can also be used as a guide for the onset of an archival or asset management process at an individual station or institution.
http://www.utah.edu/cpbmetadata/PBCore/index.html


NewsML: The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC)
The IPTC was established in 1965 by a group of news organisations including the Alliance Européenne des Agences de Presse, ANPA (now NAA), FIEJ (now WAN) and the North American News Agencies (a joint committee of Associated Press, Canadian Press and United Press International) to safeguard the telecommunications interests of the World's Press. Since the late 1970's IPTC's activities have primarily focussed on developing and publishing Industry Standards for the interchange of news data.

This site describes NewsML, “designed to provide a media-independent, structural framework for multi-media news.”
http://www.iptc.org/pages/index.php


Dublin Core
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.
http://dublincore.org/