A recent report, Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and the future directions, by JISC Tech Watch looks at the importance of metadata in a networked environment. A suggested barrier to the emergence of a single standard is the complex metadata requirements of digital objects. For example there is need for descriptive metadata, administrative metadata, structural metadata and right management metadata. The author suggests the integration of the relevant standards, all based on XML architectures, can be combined to provide a coherent metadata strategy. Some of us have already been adopting such strategies to meet metadata requirements of project needs.
Integrated metadata strategies
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Reports tend to make the metadata business look difficult. If everyone who’s creating a profile to describe an object makes sure that they are using international standards, address interoperability and the need to dumb down for harvesting etc, and don’t try and do anything too new but build on what’s gone before, then we should have the ability to combine, share, repurpose and mashup.
Agree Jen, in this case the report is making the point that there are so many aspects of resources that need to be described that metadata can be seen as a complex activity. And as you mention if we try and keep to standards and build on what has been done previously we can go a long way in achieving interoperability and effective sharing and exchange of resources.
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