The problems

• How can I locate information, and ensure that my own information is locatable by others?
• What are the important criteria by which I need to locate information?

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Metadata

[This section under development]

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Authority files

[This section under development]

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Discussion Papers

• Currall, James and Michael Moss, Document Descriptions or Metadata (University of Glasgow Information Strategy Task Force Discussion Paper, February 1998)
• Moss, Michael and James Currall, Information Authorities (University of Glasgow Information Strategy Task Force Discussion Paper, February 1998)

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General Documents

• Lynch, Clifford, Avra Michelson, et al., CNI White Paper on Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNI, 1995)
• Dempsey, Lorcan and Rachel Heery, A review of metadata : a survey of current resource description formats (UKOLN, March 1997)
• Metadata for Electronic Texts Workshop Report (Oxford Text Archive, May 1997)

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Organisations

• UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN): Metadata Page
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Metadata Page
• International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Metadata Page

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Standards (or proposed standards) for Metadata

Resource Description Framework (RDF)

• W3C RDF Home Page
• W3C RDF FAQ
• Bray, Tim, RDF and Metadata, (XML.com, June 1998)
• Lassila, Ora Introduction to RDF Metadata, (W3C Note, November 1997)
• Lagoze, Carl, Eric Miller, Ora Lassila, Ralph R. Swick et al. WWW7 Tutorial: Using Web Metadata, (April 1998)
• Miller, Eric, "An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework", D-lib (CNRI, May 1998)

Dublin Core

• Dublin Core Home Page
• UKOLN Dublin Core Page
  • Dc-dot: an online Dublin Core metadata generator (HTML and RDF forms)
• Miller, Paul, "Metadata for the Masses", Ariadne 5 (UKOLN, Sep 1996)
• Miller, Paul, and Tony Gill, "DC5 : the search for Santa", Ariadne 12 (UKOLN, Nov 1997)
• "Dublin Core and Web Metadata Standards Converge in Helsinki", (OCLC News Release, Nov 1997)
• Weibel, Stuart, and Juha Hakala, "DC-5 : the Helsinki Metadata Workshop", D-lib (CNRI, Feb 1998)
• Implementations
  • Miller, Paul and Daniel Greenstein, eds., Arts and Humanities Data Service: Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities (AHDS/UKOLN, 1997)

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Other metadata resources

• The SGML/XML Web Page's section on SGML and metadata

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Other resources

• ERM Project's General Resources page

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