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Site maintained by: Stephen Davison URL: http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/music/metadata/ Last update: Feb. 7, 2005 |
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| World Wide Web Consortium | Extensible Markup Language (XML) | http://www.w3.org/XML/ | Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. |
| Library of Congress | Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) | http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/ | The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office, with interested experts, has developed a schema for a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, and particularly for library applications. |
| Dublic Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) | Dublin Core | http://dublincore.org/ | The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. |
| Society of American Archivisits/Library of Congress | Encoded Archival Description (EAD) | http://www.loc.gov/ead/ | A standard for encoding archival finding aids using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) [now also XML-compliant]. EAD list: how to subscribe. |
| Digital Library Federation/Library of Congress | Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) | http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/ | The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language. METS Listserv instructions are on the website. |
| Variations2: Indiana University Digital Music Library Project | Research Areas: Metadata | http://www.dml.indiana.edu/metadata.html | This project will create metadata elements to enable discovery, identification, and navigation of digital content in a digital music library. It will contribute a set of proposed standards and practices that others in the digital library community may adopt; the standards may also be useful for those working with other time-based media. |
| Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) | MPEG Home Page | http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/index.htm | The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video. |
| MPEG-7 Consortium | http://www.mp7c.org | MPEG-7, formally named “Multimedia Content Description Interface”, is a standard for describing the multimedia content data that supports some degree of interpretation of the information’s meaning, which can be passed onto, or accessed by, a device or a computer code. | |
| MPEG-21 | http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/standards/mpeg-21/mpeg-21.htm | MPEG-21 aims to define the technology needed to support users to exchange, access, consume, trade and otherwise manipulate digital items in an efficient, transparent and interoperable way. MPEG-21 identifies and defines the mechanisms and elements needed to support the multimedia delivery chain as described above as well as the relationships between and the operations supported by them. Within the parts of MPEG-21, these elements are elaborated by defining the syntax and semantics of their characteristics, such as interfaces to the elements. |