Metadata Resources

Table of Contents

General

Metadata and Cataloging Online Resources: Selected Reference Documents, Web Sites, and Articles, Compiled by Steven J. Miller (University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee School of Information Studies)
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/mll/www/resource.html (accessed January 25, 2010)

Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information
http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/official_release_cidoc.html (June 2005) (accessed November 13, 2009)
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=34424 (ISO 21127:2006) (accessed November 13, 2009)

Metadata for Digital Content (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mdc/ (accessed November 13, 2009)

Understanding Metadata (NISO)
http://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf (accessed May 6, 2008)

Understanding PREMIS, by Priscilla Caplan, February 1, 2009
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/understanding-premis.pdf (accessed March 3, 2009)

Metadata Best Practices

Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata (Wiki)
http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/oaibp/?PublicTOC (accessed November 13, 2009)

Challenges for Service Providers When Importing Metadata in Digital Libraries, by Marilyn McClelland et al. (D-Lib, April 2002)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/mcclelland/04mcclelland.html (accessed May 6, 2008)

DCMI/RDA Task Group Wiki (Resource Description and Access)
http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/FrontPage?action=highlight&value=RDAVocab (accessed November 13, 2009)

Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for RLG Cultural Materials, January 2005 (RLG)
http://www.rlg.org/en/pdfs/RLG_desc_metadata.pdf (accessed December 2, 2009)

Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices, ver. 2.1.1, Sept. 2006 (BCR's Colorado Digitization Project)
Access from the BCR "Best Practices & Publications" page: <http://www.bcr.org/dps/cdp/best/index.html> (accessed December 2, 2009)

Images Application Profile (IAP) - (JISC working group, UK)
A Dublin Core Application Profile for describing an images
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Images_Application_Profile (accessed November 13, 2009)

IMS Meta-data Best Practice Guide for IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 Standard for Learning Object Metadata, Version 1.3 Public Draft, 2004 (IMS Global Learning Consortium)
http://www.imsglobal.org/metadata/mdv1p3pd/imsmd_bestv1p3pd.html (accessed November 13, 2009)

IMS recommendations (IMS Global Learning Consortium)
http://www.imsproject.org/digitalrepositories/ for the interoperation of the most common repository functions. (accessed November 13, 2009)

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information, by Murtha Baca (Getty Museum), ver. 2.1
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/index.html (accessed May 6, 2008)

Metadata Standards and Applications (Metadata Management Associates)
http://managemetadata.com/screencasts/msa/ (accessed January 25, 2010)

Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums, by Mary W. Elings and Günter Waibel (First Monday, Volume 12, Number 3 - 5 March 2007
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/225 (accessed May 6, 2008)

Moving towards shareable metadata, by Sarah L. Shreeves, Jenn Riley, and Liz Milewicz, Volume 11, Number 8 - 7 August 2006
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/202 (accessed May 6, 2008)

NSDL_DC Metadata Guidelines (NSDL)
http://nsdl.org/collection/metadata-guide.php (accessed January 29, 2010)

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Metadata Instructions from other Projects

CONTENTdm Cookbook: Recipes for metadata entry for UofL Digital Initiatives (University of Louiville)
Cookbook: http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm4/cookbook.pdf (accessed November 13, 2009)
Digital Collections - University of Louisville - http://digital.library.louisville.edu/ (accessed November 13, 2009)

Guidelines for Metadata Application in the Clarement Colleges Digital Library, Version 2, June 2007
Guidelines: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/adl,45 (accessed November 13, 2009)
CCDL - http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/home.php (accessed November 13, 2009)

Guidelines for the Creation of Content for Resource Discovery Metadata (National Library of Australia)
http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/metaguide.html (accessed November 13, 2009)

Handbook, version 2008-2009 (California Local History Digital Resources Program)
Handbook: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/lsta/handbook/ (accessed November 13, 2009)
California Digital Library - http://www.cdlib.org/ (accessed November 13, 2009)
Online Archives of California- http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/ (accessed November 13, 2009)

Metadata Guidelines for the Indiana Digital Library
http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/isl/diglibin/idlmetadata_final.pdf (accessed November 13, 2009)

Metadata Guidelines for Collections using CONTENTdm (University of Washington)
http://www.lib.washington.edu/msd/mig/advice/default.html(accessed November 13, 2009)

Wisconsin Heritage Online Metadata Guidelines, v. 1.1, October 2006 (Word doc)
file:////burkelib-07/matrix/dams/docs/contentdm/wisc_metadata_guide.doc (accessed November 13, 2009)

Describing Works of Art

Categories for the Description of Works of Art, Murtha Baca and Patricia Harpring, editors (J. Paul Getty Trust), Revised 9 June 2009 - http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/index.html (accessed November 13, 2009)

Catalog and Finding Aid Systems for Pictorial Materials: Representative Examples (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Readin Room)
This resource list cites representative systems according to cataloging characteristics frequently asked about. The categories highlight only one feature of each system to help you compare different types of catalogs and finding aids; levels and depths of description; cataloging (descriptive metadata) standards; digital image navigation, and encoding schemes.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/resource/229_catfindaid.html#multiple(accessed December 12, 2009)

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Describing photographs

See the principles of indexing images that appear in the "Introduction to TGM"
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/(accessed December 12, 2009)

Subject Indexing for Pictures: An Overview, by Helena Zinkham
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tp/Subject%20Indexing%20for%20Pictures.pdf(accessed December 12, 2009)

Digital Sample Book
http://www.digitalsamplebook.com/home.htm (accessed December 12, 2009)

Care and Identification of 19th-Century Photographic Prints, by James M. Reilly. (Eastman Kodak Co., c1986).

How to Identify Prints: A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Ink Jet by Bamber Gascoigne (Thames & Hudson, 1988, c1986). Burke Library - Call Number: NE850 .G37 1986

Media Annotations Working Group - Video, Audio, Images (W3C)
The mission of the Media Annotations Working Group, part of the Video in the Web Activity, is to provide an ontology and API designed to facilitate cross-community data integration of information related to media objects in the Web, such as video, audio and images.
Ontology for Media Resource 1.0 - http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
API for Media Resource 1.0 - http://www.w3.org/TR/mediaont-api-1.0/

Photo Metadata (IPTC)
Home: http://www.iptc.org/cms/site/index.html?channel=CH0099
IPTC Photo Metadata Standards (spec document) - http://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoMetadata%28200907%29_1.pdf

Photo Metadata.org (SAA)
Home: http://www.photometadata.org/
How to embed photo metadata - http://www.photometadata.org/node/19

Describing Video

Moving Image Collections Cataloging & Metadata Portal (MIC)
http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/catalogers_portal/cat_indexmr.htm (accessed December 12, 2009)

Standards Consulted

Dublin Core

RDA (NSDL Registry)
http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/list/schema_id/1.html (accessed January 25, 2010)

VRA ()

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(Updated: December 14, 2009, pjm)