Table of Contents

Preface

Part I - An overview of resource desciption issues

Metadata and its uses

• Control and the publishing environment
  
• A variety of metadata creators and sources
  
• Structure and fullness
  
• A distributed environment
  

Some characteristics of investigated metadata formats

• Environment of use
  
• Format issues
  
  • Metadata formats
    
  • Protocol issues
    

• Implementations
  

Conclusion

Part II - A review of metadata formats

BibTex

Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)

CIMI (Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information)

Dublin Core

Encoding Archival Description (EAD)

The EELS Metadata Format

The EEVL Metadata Format

FGDC - Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Government Information Locator Service (GILS)

IAFA/Whois++ Templates

ICPSR SGML Codebook Initiative

LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)

MARC (General)

USMARC

UKMARC

UNIMARC

PICA+

RFC 1807

Summary Object Interchange Format (SOIF)

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Independent Headers

Uniform Resource Characteristics/Citations (URCs)

Warwick Framework