Table of Contents

Library Efforts

• Directory of Metadata Efforts by Int'l. Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (an excellent resource)
• D-lib Program
  Includes links to Digital Library Magazine
• UCSF Guide to Creating Core Metadata (this link is broken)
  
• Digital Library Metadata Group
• United Kingdom Office of Library and Inforamtion Networking (UKOLN)
• UKOLN Metadata Page
• UKOLN Metadata Resources Page
• Metadata References by Tita van der Werf
• Digital Libraries Resource Page
• Library of Congress Standards
• Metadata for Networked Objects - Dublin Core and Warwick Framework by Carl Lagoze
• Dublin Core Metadata Bibliography by Lasher at Stanford
• Dublin-Core-Metadata-Element-Set Univ. of Goettingen resource page
• Nordic Metadata Project
• The Warwick Framework: A Container Architecture for Aggregating Sets of Metadata Carl Lagoze, Cliff Lynch, Ron Daniel, Jr.
• IFLA Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources

Cataloging and Classification

• Cataloging and Classification Quarterly
• Journal of Internet Cataloging

Archives and Museums

• CalFlora
• Archives and Museums Informatics Publications
• Museums Computer Network
• CIDOC - The International Committee for Documentation. International Council of Museums
• Museum Resources and the Internet
• Standards for Museum & Cultural Heritage Information
• Standards in Museum Informatics
• Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information
• UC EAD Project - A Prototype Union Database OF Encoded Archival Finding Aids
• Encoded Archival Description (EAD) DTD
• Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids
• Resources for Standards for Digital Information Interchange by Arts and Humanities Data Service
• References for Standards for Digital Information Interchange (this link is broken)
  by Arts and Humanities Data Service
• Image and Multimedia Database Resources
• Museum and cultural heritage information standards resource guide A joint project of the Getty Information Institute and the International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums
• International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC)

Academic Research Efforts

• URN Resolution
• Metadata, Linking, Indexing (at MIT)
• Search Support for Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies (UC Berkeley) Buckland, Gey, Larsen
• Information Center for the Environment (UC Davis)

Biological Metadata Efforts

• Schemas for Biological Collections by Stan Bloom and Victor Markowitz
• Hebarium Information Standards
• Core Attributes Terrestrial Biological Survey Data in Australia
• Proposed Metadata Standard for National Biological Informatin Infrastructure (NBII) by National Biological Service, US Dept. of Interior
• National Biological Information Infrastructure
• Current Status of the NBII Metadata Standard
• IEEE DRAFT Biological Metadata Content Standard (This link is broken)
  

BLM

• BLM Metadata and WWW Mapping Home Page
• BLM Tutorial on Metadata

Canada

• Canadian General Standards Board Committee on Geomatics
• SAIF Home Page (Spatial Archiving and Interchange Format ) One of the antecedents of OGIS. Developed by British Columbia.

CASE and Software Reuse

• PCTE - Portable Common Tools Environment ISO JTC1 SC22/WG22 - PCTE
• CDIF - CASE Data Interchange Format
• Reuse Library Interoperability Group

CIESIN

• Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) WWW
• Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) Gopher
• CIESIN Environmental WWW Sites Catalog

DOD (U.S. Dept. of Defense)

• NIMA's (National Imagery and Mapping Agency) Data Architecture Web Page
• NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency) Home Page
• DOD Geospatial Information Infrastructure Master Plan
• DoD Data Administration Web Page
• DoD GSMC/ISMC Web Page
  GSMC = Geospatial Standards Management Committee
  ISMC = Imagergy Standards Management Committee
  
• DoD FAM-D - Healthcare Data Model
  
• DoD Joint Data Base Elements for Modeling and Simulation
  

DOE (U.S. Dept. of Energy)

• Argonne's Dynamic Environmental Effects Model (DEEM)
• DOE Office of Enivronmental Management

Economic Statistics

• OECD Statistics
• Other Economic Statistics Sites

Electronic Commerce, EDI Standards

• UN/EDIFACT Standards Web Pages
• Duke's list of UN/EDIFACT Standards Web Pages
• EDI/Electronic Commerce Organizations and Internet Resources
• EDI/Electronic Commerce Resources by Premenos
• EDI Standards Organizations
• XML/EDI Home Page
• EDML (Electronic Data Markup Language) Home Page
• EDI and XML European Union
• Guidelines for Using XML for EDI editor Martin Bryan
• EDI and Electronic Commerce References by PaperFree Systems
• EDI and Electronic Commerce Links by Research Triangle Consultants, Inc.
• International and U.S. Governement Electronic Commerce Initiatives

Metadata for Evidentiary Purposes

• Functional Requirements for Evidence in Recordkeeping
• Metadata for Evidence in Recordkeeping
• Evidentiary Metadata Requirements

European Activities

• Central European Environmental Data Request Facility (CEDAR)
• EU Impact GIS Projects (This link is broken)
  
• Environmental Data Management at HGF - Hermann von Helmholtz-Association of German Research Centers
• The CERA Metadata Model
• Directory of Environmental Database Systems - worldwide (This link is broken)
  
• idaresa - integrated documentation and retrieval environment for statistical aggregates Metadata-based statistical environment
• Environmental Information Systems Uses WWW and CORBA
• Open Information Interchange by European Commission
• Open Information Interchange Scientific Data Exchange Standards by European Commission
• European Standardization Strategies for Geographic Information by European Commission, report of Oct. 1996
• CEN 287 - GIS Standards
• DESIRE Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education

File/Tape/Document Interchange Formats

• AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management International )
• Metadata for Interchange of Files on Sequential Storage Media Between File Storage Management Systems (FSMS) Proposed Standard ANSI/AIIM MS66, Association for Information and Image Management International
• File/Tape Metadata Standards by Joel Williams
• DIGITAL Sequential Media Filesystem
• AIIM - Assoc. for Information and Image Management - Standards Page includes optical disks, document management, etc.

FGDC

• FGDC Metadata Content Standard (at NIST)
• Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (US FGDC)
• Minimum Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (US FGDC)
• FGDC Metadata Compliance Tester (US Navy)
• FGDC Home Page

Healthcare Informatics

• Duke Univ. Healthcare Informatics Web Page
• HL7 SGML/XML Special Interest GrouP health informatics stds using XML
• DoD FAM-D - Healthcare Data Model
  

Instructional Metadata

• Learning Objects Metadata Group (This link is broken)
  
• IEEE P1484 Standards Committee Developing Technical Standards for Computer-Based Learning
• IEEE P1484 Related Links standards for educational software
• Educom's Instructional Management Systems Project Home Page
  • Instructional Management Systems Project Metadata Tool
  • Instructional Management Systems Project Metadata Specification
  • Instructional Management Systems Project Metadata Technical Documents Table of Contents

IEEE

• IEEE MSS Metadata Group
• IEEE MSS Metadata Group Position Papers (This link is broken)
  
• IEEE MSS Metadata Group - Other Metadata Efforts
• IEEE MSS Metadata Group - Index of WWW Site at LLNL
• IEEE MSS Metadata Group - Minutes of Feb. 1994 Meeting

Medical Metadata, Terminology, Classification

• Lexicon Query Service Work Group
• CORBAmed Working Groups
• Internet Medical Terminology Resources both German and English versions
• MEDWIS - Medical Knowledge Bases Munich, Germany
• 1 Blue Angel Metadata Resources Web Page

Miscellaneous

• Metadata Schema Registry
• ZORBA - Information Retrieval using Distributed Object Technologies
• CORBA Trading Service Specification Development

Naming

• Treatise and references on naming

NASA

• NASA Global Change Data Center (This link is broken)
  
• NASA Global Change Master Directory
• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Document FTP server
• NASA Space Physics Data System
• Earth Observing Systemm (EOS) Home Page (NASA)
• Earth Observing Systemm (EOS) Project Science Office (NASA)
• EOSDIS/ESDIS Office (NASA)
• EOSDIS Core System Project (NASA)
• EOSDIS Core System Data Handling Project (NASA)
• EROS Data Center
• NASA Earth and Space Sciences Program
• NASA Earth and Space Sciences Program

NCGIA

• National Center for Geographic Information (NCGIA UCSB)
• National Center for Geographic Information (NCGIA Maine)

NIST

• Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division
• NIST Information Systems Engineering Division
• FGDC Metadata Content Standard (at NIST)
• Federal EDI effort (at NIST)
• IDEF Standards IDEF0 (process modeling) IDEF1X (data modeling)

  Includes postscript versions of the IDEF0 and IDEF1X standards.

NSF

• NSF Long Term Ecological Research Network

NOAA

• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA NODC)
• National Geophyscial Data Center (NOAA NGDC)
• National Climatic Data Center (NOAA NCDC)
• NOAA Dataset Catalog
• NOAA Server Project Metadata

OGIS

• Open Geodata Interoperability Specification (Open GIS or OGIS) Consortium
• Open Geodata Interoperability Specification (Open GIS or OGIS) web server
• Open Geodata Interoperability Specification (Open GIS or OGIS) ftp server
• SAIF Home Page (Spatial Archiving and Interchange Format ) One of the antecedents of OGIS.
• GII Framework - Data and Metadata Models

Other

• Knowledge Sharing Effort
• Metadata Papers from Sloan School
• Environmental/Planning GIS at UC Berkeley
• Sequoia 2000 Project (UC)
• Big Sur Schema (Sequoia Project) (UC)
• Earth Observations Lab / ISTS (Canada)
• Geographic Metadata (by Deane Merrill) (This link is broken)
  
• Internet resources for geographic information and GIS (by NCGIA Maine) (This link is broken)
  
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
• CEDAR Catalog of Environmental Gophers
• Environmental Resource Center
• Earth and Environmental Science Web Sites (by USGS)
• CERES Project at UC Davis
• Data Management, Meta-Data, and Scientific Data Formats a directory maintained at UC Davis
• CERES Project (Calif. Environmental Resources Evaluation System)
• Water On-Line
• Geolinius Software for Geospatial Metadata (This link is broken)
  
• LLNL Intelligent Archive Project
• EU Impact GIS Projects
• GIS World Magazine
• A Guide to Environmental Resources on the Internet (Briggs & Murphy)
• Enviro Web
• US Navy Environmental Library
• US DOD Terrain Modeling Program Office
• Metadata for Gap Analysis (Forestry)
• Digital Library Technology:Universal Spatial Data Access Consortium (USDAC)
• North Carolina Supercomputer CenTER eNVIRONMental Programs Group
• UC Santa Barbara Alexandria Digital Library Project Metadata
• Environmental Information Servers (Ed Roworth) (This link is broken)
  
• Meta Data Coalition
  • Metadata Interchange Specification (MDIS Version 1.0)
• The Environmental Professional's Guide to the Net
• Judy Ahronheim's and Magda El-Sherbini's List of Metadata Initiatives
• The Semantic Header and Indexing and Searching on the Internet B.C. Desai
• DAMA - Data Management Association Database Adminstration
• Massive Data Analysis Project includes discussion of metadata

Ontologies, Interchange Formats

• Knowledge Sharing Effort
• Library of Ontologies at Stanford, KSL
• CMIL -- An Interchange Language for Composable Engineering Ontologies and Models
• THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC-DATA ONTOLOGY
• Intelligent Software Agents, by Sverker Janson
• Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)
• Description Logics References
• Description Logic Home Page
• Towards Principled Core Ontologies by Andre Valente and Joost Breuker
• Role of Ontologies in Distributed Information Systems by Alun D. Preece

Pacific Rim

• Environmental Information on Australia
• Environmental Resource Infonvironmental Resource Information Network (Australia)
• Standards for Spatial Information (Australia)
• Resource Discovery Unit (Australia)

Chemical Markup Language

• CML: A Gentle Introduction to Chemical Markup Language

Mathematical Markup Language

• Mathematical Markup Language - W3C Working Draft
• Mathematical Markup Language - Home Page

STEP, Product Data Interchange

• Formal Ontologies for Product Interchange - A Workshop

UML - Unified Modeling Language

• UML Resource Center at Rational Software
• UML & MOF Specifications
• UML Recources: Reading List
• Complete source for UML education
• UML Document Set
• UML Bibliography
• A New Modeling Language (by T C251 Enabling Technologies)
• UML Dictionary by Kendall Scott

United Nations

• United Nations Environmental Program
• United Nations Environmental Program
• United Nations Development Program
• United Nations Infoterra Program

Measurement Units

• The Metric Systems a Concise Reference Guide

United States Census Bureau

• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
• U.S. Census Survey Metadata Page
• Directory of Government Statistical Agency Web Pages by D. Rope (GMU), includes foreign government census bureaus

United States Gov. (misc)

• Government Information Locator Services (GILS)
• Government Information Locator Services (GILS) at LANL
• US Global Change Research Information Office (gopher)
• US Global Change Research Information Office
• US Global Change Research Program Office
• USDA / CIESIN Global Environmental Change Data Assessment and Integration Home Page
• USDA Global Environmental Change Data Integration Report *Year 3)
• US Army Corps of Engineers Concstruction Eng. Research Lab Geospatial Metadata Page(This link is broken)
  
• Massive Digital Data Systems (This link is broken)
  
• U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers Geospatial Metadata WWW Page
• Tri-service Spatial Data Standards (TSSDS) Information

USGS

• USGS GIS Standards
• U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee
• U.S. Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
• U.S. Geological Survey
• USGS Spatial Data Standards
• National Spatial Data Infrastructure Clearinghouse
• Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (US FGDC)
• Minimum Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (US FGDC)
• U.S. Geospatial Data Standards
• Compiler for Formal Metadata (for FGDC)
• Editor for Formal Metadata (for FGDC)
• Formal Metadata (for FGDC)

Papers

• Metadata for Geosciences .... Shelley and Johnson (This link is broken)
  
• National Directory of Australian Resources Shelley (This link is broken)
  
• Scientific Dataset Catalog Design Johnson, et al. (This link is broken)
  
• Metadata Papers by Amit Sheth (This link is broken)
  
• Standards for Management of Statistical Metadata: A Framework for Collaboration Ronald B. Graves (Statistics Canada), Daniel W. Gillman (US Census Bureau)

Vendors

• Microsoft Repository
• Onemeaning A vendor of metadata management and conversion products.

Related Software / File Formats

• netCDF File Format (UCAR)
• HDF File Format (NCSA)
• HDF File Format - EOSDIS extensions
• DRS File Format (LLNL)
• DDI - Data and Dimensions Interface
• KIF (Knowledge Interchange Format) Reference Manual
• ASN.1 Information
  • ASN.1 Tutorial Links
  • ASN.1 Homepage
  • MAVROS ASN.1 Homepage
  • Rinderkecht, Parsing ASN.1:1990 with Caml Light INRIA Tech Report Abstract
  • NCBI FTP Site - ASN.1 Toolbox See entry for toolbox. See also NCBI Toolbox FTP Site README file and NCBI Toolbox FTP Site
  • Open Systems Solutions - ASN.1 Software Provider
• NASA's Directory Interchange Format (DIF)
• North Carolina Supercomputer Center Environmental Programs
  • EDSS - Environmental Decision Support System (NCSC) a model management system for environmental models
• A Distributed Computing Approach to Large-Scale Environmental Modeling - Carnegie Mellon Univ. (This link is broken)
  

Z39.50

• Z39.50 Resources - a pointer page (This link is broken)
  
• Library of Congress Z39.50 Resources
• ASN.1 Data Exchange Format

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