Metadata Standards

• Dublin Core
  • Note finding that dc.identifier is not an unambiguous identifier for that which should be preserved, as it may point to a derived representation.
• MARC - Bibliographic, authority and related metadata.
• METS - a container/wrapper?
  • METS - Structural
• MODS - Metadata Object Description Schema (relations?)
  • MODS - Descriptive
• RFC 1807 - Bibliographic metadata.
• ONIX - ONline Information eXchange
• MIT Selected Metadata Standards and notes therein contain lots of information. There are clearly metadata standards for different classes of data and metadata.
• Z39.87 Data dictionary - Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (MIX)
• EXIF - Images
• IPTC/XMP - Images
• MIX - Images
• Open Archives Initiative
• PBCore - Video/Audio
• SMPTE - Video/Audio

PREMISE #

• PREMIS
• Using PREMIS with METS
• PREMIS Tools

Crosswalking #

Migrations that convert between metadata formats, mapping elements of one into the other.

• bibtex2rdf.

References #

• This book is quite good: Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability

• A Standards Primer - Understanding Technology Standardization Efforts.