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At the February 4, 2003 CENDI meeting at the National Library of Medicine, Dr. Bellardo, reviewed NARA's goals in light of several new NARA initiatives. These include the Records Management Initiative (RMI), the Electronic Records Management (ERM), and the Electronic Records Archives (ERA). Each of the initiatives were discussed in detail. Dr. Bellardo closed his presentation by emphasizing the interests that NARA and CENDI share including preservation and access to information over time, especially in the areas of scientific and technical data, research and development data, and government publications. He identified the development of metadata standards, harvesting of metadata and content, and initiatives surrounding the E-Government Act as being possible areas for collaboration.
At the CENDI meeting on April 15, 2003 at USGS, Ms. Roy explained the National Biological Information Infrastructure's (NBII) vision of geospatial access is that all resources, information, and data within the NBII Web, when spatially relevant, will be referenced and retrievable in an interoperable manner. There are three major components in NBII's project: geographically referenced web pages; map viewing capability; and a centralized map service registry. The registry is to be completed by early summer and NBII nodes will be required to comply within six months.
The Guide presents an overview of metadata practices in publishing and related initiatives aimed at standardizing how metadata is structured and disseminated online. Metadata in publishing can be classified according to specific functions, such as technical metadata, rights metadata, and preservation metadata. The authors focus on descriptive metadata that characterizes the content itself. The Guide covers metadata's relationship to XML and to identifiers, why metadata is important to publishers and the reader, and then covers several metadata practices in the publishing industry including ONIX, JWP, CrossRef, and OAI. The authors conclude that metadata is an essential part of the publishing process and provides an extensive list of information resources on electronic publishing.
Metadata initiatives for six CENDI agencies are described. The emphasis is on metadata for non-traditional projects such as multimedia, curriculum and educational materials, and web site cataloging. Issues and concerns are identified along with recommendations for CENDI follow-up.
A metadata format used by federal agencies, including science agencies, to identify government resources at various levels. Required by OMB Circular A-130 (Paperwork Reduction Act) and FIPS 192. GILS is also used internationally.
A metadata format for geospatial data required within the federal government by Executive Order when the original information can be referenced geospatially (i.e., by latitude and longtitude coordinates).
OMB Circular A-130 provides specific policies, principles, standards and guidelines for implementation of the Paperwork Reduction Act. This act established a broad mandate for agencies to perform their information resources management activities in an efficient, effective, and economical manner. This circular effects all Executive Branch agencies, including CENDI members.
The workshop focused on the characteristics and features of images, image production and reformatting features, and image identification and integrity issues in relation to preservation and archiving. The group agreed on a preliminary list of technical metadata elements specifically required for images, and follow-up efforts needed to future standardize
The Metadiversity Symposium held at Natural Bridge, VA on November 9-12, 1998 was sponsored by the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services and the Biological Resources Division of the US Geological Survey as a means of identifying research directions in the area of metadata for biodiversity and ecosystem sciences. This is part of the National Biological Information Infrastructure. This site provides links to preprints of the symposium papers, notes from the symposium, and the preliminary program. The final report is available from NFAIS in hard copy.
This is the final report from the Task Force that was established with five charges: analyze the resource description needs of libraries, build a conceptual map of the resource description landscape and develop models for accessing and using metadata, devise a definition of metadata and investigate the interoperability of emerging schemes with current MARC rules, recommend ways that libraries could best incorporate metadata schemes into current library practices, and recommend rules revisions to AACR2. The charges are addressed in this summary document. It also contains links to prototype systems, a glossary of terms, and concludes by handing over its results to the ALCTS standing Committee on Networked Resources and Metadata.
A follow-on to the group's earlier "Preservation Metatdata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art," this report is a guide to preservation metadata for digital presentation activities. It includes an overview of the relationship of preservation metadata to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model.
This White Paper is a collaborative effort between OCLC and RLG to identify and support best practices for the long-term retention and preservation of digital ojbects. This effort was limited to identifying attributes of a digital archive for research repositories and the use of metadata to support the digital preservation process. The Working Group was formed to initiate a consensus-building process in preservation metadata. From this foundation a framework will be developed. The scope of this white paper includes the following topics: definition and illustration of preservation metadata for digital objects; high-level requirements for a broadly applicable, comprehensive preservation metadata framework; the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model, a potential strating point for developing the preservation metadata framework; review and synthesis of existing preservation metadata approaches; and the identification of points of agreement/disagreement among existing approaches.
This Web-based registry is a listing of descriptions of a wide variety of digital initiatives in or involving libraries. It is a collaboration between the University of Illinois, Chicago and ARL. Technical features, policy choices, and subject matter of the content are highlighted in the ARL database. Contact persons are also provided.
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