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Meta Data Related Links

Australia. The MetaWeb Project.

Australia. National Library of Australia. Meta Matters.

Ahronheim, Judy. Judy and Magda's List of Metadata Initiatives.

Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). ALCTS Taskforce on Meta Access.

Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). Task Force on Metadata. Summary Report, June 1999.

Association of American Publishers (AAP). MICI - "Metadata Information Clearinghouse (Interactive).

Book Industry Communications (BIC). Electronic Rights Trading.
Has numerous documents and reports pertaining to rights metadata, identifiers and metadata issues.

Colorado Digitization Project. digital toolbox: metadata.

Digital Library Colaboratory Working Groups. Metadata Working Group.

Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DTSC). Resource Discovery Unit (RDU).

EDUCOM. Instructional Management Systems Project (IMS). IMS Metadata.

E-Learning Takes Important Step Forward.
Metadata Standards Leaders IEEE LTSC-LOM, and DCMI Begin Designing Future Metadata Architecture for Web-based Learning, Education and Training.

EUN. European Schoolnet. Metadata course.
General introduction to Metadata, its use, sense, explaining also a Metadata tool, producing MD, but also a MD viewer.

IEEE. The Metadata and Data Management Information Page.

IEEE. Learning Technology Standards Committee.

International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4: Document Description and Processing Languages.
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG2 is a WG on metadata although a URL for documents is not available at this time.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Intelligent Archive: Annotating & Organizing Information.

Meta Data Coalition. Meta Data Coalition
"The Meta Data Coalition regroups vendors and users allied with a common purpose of driving forward the definition, implementation and ongoing evolution of a meta data interchange format and its support mechanisms."

U.K. Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN). Metadata.

U.K. Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN). Metadata: Mapping between metadata formats.
Michael Day. UKOLN, University of Bath.

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI).
UDDI specifies interfaces for distributed web-based information registries of Web Services. The UDDI initiative also supplies publicly accessible implementations of the specification. The set of UDDI Registers form a distributed database where businesses may register information about themselves and the "Web Services" they offer. Web Services are standardized descriptions of the accessible elements in services offered on the Web.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Scientific Metadata Standards Project.

W3 Consortium. (organization) Metadata and Resource Description.