Re: [Metadata] 'Rendering' metadata

[Jerome McDonough <jmcdonou@library.berkeley.edu>]

At 02:08 PM 9/23/98 -0500, Priscilla Caplan wrote:
>This sounds to me to overlap some with what the library/archive/museum
>community is calling "administrative" metadata, which can include details
>about the date/time/place/agent of creation of the data and technical
>information (e.g. the scanner used for a scanned image, color profile,
>etc.).  I don't know of any firm standards in this area but there is a lot
>of work going on particularly in the area of images (where this data may be
>carried in the image header or standalone) and some recommended best
>practices are taking shape.  NISO, CLIR and some other groups in the US are
>considering co-sponsoring a workshop in the spring to further the
>standardization of the content and format of this type of administrative
>metadata for images.

Interested parties might want to look at the efforts to formalize
both administrative and structural metadata going on as part of the
Making of America II project, which involves UC Berkeley, Stanford,
NYPL, Cornell, and Penn State.  A white paper describing the project
and the administrative/structural metadata development is available
at the MOA2 website:

	http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/

I'm currently developing an XML DTD for encoding administrative and
structural metadata in order to enable display of electronic 
versions of archival objects (journals, still images, letterpress books,
etc.) in a variety of formats.  The DTD hasn't been publicly released,
but anyone with a strong interest in administrative metadata issues
can contact me directly if they'd like to see a copy.


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