Metadata and Encoding

See sections below:

• General Metadata Resources
• Data Content and Value Standards
• Data Structure and Interchange Standards
• Markup Languages
• Metadata Exchange Protocols

General Metadata Resources

• Baca, Martha. Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information. Getty Research Institute (2000).
  (http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/
  intrometadata/2_articles/index.html).
• Foulonneau, Muriel and Jenn Riley. Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability (Chandos Publishing, 2008).
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources (accessed Nov. 2002).
  (http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm).
• NISO. Understanding Metadata (2004) (http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf)

Data Content and Value Standards

• Name Authority Files
  • Personal and corporate names
    • Getty Research Institute. Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) (accessed Feb. 2003). (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/
      ulan/)
    • Library of Congress. Authorities (includes Name Authority File) (accessed Nov. 2002). (http://authorities.loc.gov/)
  • Geographic names
    • Getty Research Institute. Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) (accessed Feb. 2003) (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/
      tgn/)
    
    
• Content Standards
  • General material types
    • Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed., rev. American Library Association (available in print or on the Library of Congress' Cataloger's Desktop CD-ROM).
    • Cataloging Cultural Objects: a Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/)
  • Graphic materials
    • Betz, Elizabeth W. Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections. Library of Congress
      (http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/grph0199.htm).
    • White-Hensen, Wendy. Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging Manual (available in print or on the Library of Congress' Cataloger's Desktop CD-ROM). Collections
  • Collections
    • Describing Archives: a Content Standard (http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=1279)

• Subject Thesauri
  • Subject headings
    • Getty Research Institute. Art and Architecture Thesaurus (accessed Nov. 2002).
      (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/
      aat/index.html).
    • Library of Congress. Subject Headings (2002). (Available in print or on the Library of Congress' Cataloger's Desktop CD-ROM; used in conjunction with Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject Headings (2000)).
    • Library of Congress. Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Subject Terms (TGMI) (accessed Nov. 2002).
      (http://www.loc.gov/lexico/servlet/lexico/).
    • National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) (accessed Feb. 2003). (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html)
  • Form/genre headings
    • American Library Association, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS). (Available in print only)
      • Binding Terms (1988)
      • Genre Terms, 2nd ed. (1991)
      • Paper Terms (1990)
      • Printing and Publishing Evidence (1986)
      • Provenance Evidence (1988)
      • Type Evidence (1990)
    • Library of Congress. Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGMII) (accessed Nov. 2002).
      (http://www.loc.gov/lexico/servlet/lexico/).

Data Structure and Interchange Standards

Metadata and Content File Wrapping

• Library of Congress. Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS) Official Web Site (accessed Nov. 2002). (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/)
  • METS: An Overview & Tutorial. (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
    METSOverview.html)
  • METS Presentations (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
    presentations.html

General Material Types

• Dublin Core Metadata Inititative (DCMI) (accessed Nov. 2002).
  (http://dublincore.org)
  • Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description (2002).
    (http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/)
  • DCMI Term Declarations Represented in XML Schema Language (http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/)
  • Encoding Guidelines
    • Kunze, John. Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML.
      (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt)
  • Usage Guide
    • Hillman, Diane. Using Dublin Core
      (http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/
      07/16/usageguide/simple-html.shtml)
      

• Library of Congress. MARC Standards (accessed Nov. 2002). (http://www.loc.gov/marc/)
  • MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data
    (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/
    ecbdhome.html)
  • MARC 21 XML Schema (http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/)
    
    
• Library of Congress. Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) Official Web Site (accessed Feb. 2003). (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/)

Images and Graphic Material

• Visual Resources Association (VRA). VRA Core Categories 3.0 (accessed Nov. 2002). (http://vraweb.org/vracore3.htm)
• NISO. Data Dictionary: Technical Metadata for Still Images (2002). (http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/
  Z39_87_trial_use.pdf)
  • Library of Congress. Metadata for Images in XML (MIX) Schema Official Web Site (accessed Feb. 2003). (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mix/)

Collections

• Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
• Dublin Core Metadata Inititative (DCMI) (accessed Sept. 2007). Collection Description Terms and Application Profile
  (http://dublincore.org/groups/collections/)

Texts

• Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Website (accessed Feb. 2003). (http://www.tei-c.org/

Markup Languages

• OASIS. Cover Pages: Standard General Markup Language (SGML) (accessed Feb. 2003). (http://xml.coverpages.org/sgml.html)
• W3C. Extensible Markup Language (XML) (accessed Feb. 2003). (http://www.w3.org/XML/)
• University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center. Online Helpsheets: XML and SGML (accessed April 2003). (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/helpsheets.html)

Metadata Exchange Protocols

• Open Archives Initiative (OAI) (accessed Feb. 2003). (http://www.openarchives.org)