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  • A Grammar of Dublin Core 10/23/00 Who points to it? 15 - Thomas Baker, A Grammar of Dublin Core, D-Lib Magazine, October 2000, Volume 6 Number 10 -- looks at the dublin core as a language and compares it to RDF.

  • Introduction To Metadata 4/29/00 Who points to it? 24 - The Getty Institue has posted " Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to DigitalInformation on the web" which is "intended as a primer for an important butmisunderstood, and still evolvin, —aspect of the age of information: metadata. The work is oriented to cultural heritage and web resource discovery applications and includes a table showing the detailed relation between different metadata standards.(EIPub)

  • DAML could take search to a new level 2/21/00 Who points to it? 14 - (By Jim Rapoza, PC Week Labs, PC WeekFebruary 6, 2000)It may seem that the last thing the world needs is another Web standard, but there is always roomfor an intelligent addition. A new language known as DAML addresses an important, unmetneed—making Web sites understandable to programs and nontraditional browsing devices.DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Agent Markup Language is a steptoward what Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, calls a "semantic Web"where agents, search engines and other programs can read DAML mark up to deciphermeaning—rather than just content—on a Web site. A semantic Web also lets agents utilize all thedata on all Web pages, allowing it to gain knowledge from one site and apply it to logicalmappings on other sites.

  • Metadata Introduction 9/28/00 Who points to it? 13 - The Euopean Schoolnet has a free Metadata course which gives a general introduction to Metadata, its use, sense, explaining also aMetadata tool, producing MD, but also a MD viewer.

  • Meta Data Coalition 10/5/00 Who points to it? 16 - The MetaData Coalition allies software vendors and users with a common purpose of driving forward the definition,implementation and ongoing evolution of a metadata interchange format standard and its support mechanisms. In Fall 2000 the MDC will merge with OMG.

  • Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration 10/9/00 Who points to it? 20 - UDDI is "comprehensive, openindustry initiative enabling businesses to (I) discover each other, and (II) define how they interact over the internet and share information in a global registry architecture.". It's focus is on B2B ecommerce and was originally started by Ariba, IBM, and Microsoft but now has the participation of a large number of companies.

  • The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions 12/28/00 Who points to it? 15 - This artical from the December 2000 d-lib magazine describes the new mission statement ofthe Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, recapitulates 2000's important milestones, outlines activities of the 8th DCMI workshop, and summarizes the 2001 workplan.

  • SCHEMAS: Forum for Metadata Schema Designers and Implementers 12/28/00 Who points to it? 14 - The Schemas project, sponsored by the ECs 5th Framework Programme, aims toprovide information regarding the staus and use of new and emerging metadatastandards, and to promote good practice guidelines for adapting metadatastandards for local use in customised, implementation specific schemas. Thewebsite contains a growing list of resources and is maintained by UKOLN. (EIPub)

  • The Power of Metadata 1/27/01 Who points to it? 16 - This essay by Rael Dornfest and Dan Brickley is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Disruptive Potential of Collaborative Networking Edited by Andy Oram

  • Automatic meta tagging 3/29/01 Who points to it? 16 - Hiawatha Island Software Company has released HiSoftwareMetadata Server, enabling organisations to automatically labelMicrosoft Office and "web-bound" documents with descriptivemetadata.

  • Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 4/29/01 Who points to it? 17 - WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messagescontaining either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. WSDL is being developed by Ariba, IBM andMicrosoft and is designed to work with UDDI and SOAP.

  • Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry 1/4/02 Who points to it? 13 - Christophe Blanchi and Jason Petrone, Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry, D-Lib Magazine, December 2001v7n12. "... In this article, we propose a distributed architecture for managing metadata and metadata schema. Instead ofnormalizing all metadata and schema to a single format, we have focused on building a middleware framework thattolerates heterogeneity. By providing facilities for typing and dynamic conversion of metadata, our system permitscontinual introduction of new forms of metadata with minimal impact on compatibility. ..."

  • Metadata: Selected papers from Dublin Core 2001 1/21/02 Who points to it? 23 - The Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) have published a specialissue on metadata which includes selected papers from the Dublin Core2001 Conference (DC-2001) held in Tokyo, Japan. The eight papersselected from a possible 50 presented at the conference have beenre-written and focus on metadata models, querying of metadata, anarchitecture for a specific application area, and a first empiricalstudy of experiences with metadata creation. (El.pub)

  • Metacrap...seven straw-men of the meta-utopia 3/10/02 Who points to it? 12 - A pessamistic essay by Cory Doctorow on metadata -- "A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be a utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris andhysterically inflated market opportunities."

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