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== Definition ==

From the [[Wikipedia:Metadata|Wikipedia]]: '''Metadata''' (Greek: meta- + Latin: data "information"), literally "data about data", are information about another set of data.

Metadata schemes are a kind of [[controlled vocabulary]].

See also: [[annotation system]]s.

== Standards of interest to education ==

; Languages to create taxonomies for objects like web pages or learning objects
* [[Dublin Core]]
* [[Learning Object Metadata Standard]]

; Bibliographic
* Library standards such as MARC
* Bibliographic [[Citation]] standards like APA (see also [[reference manager]]s)

; Organizing, describing information
* Information Space standards such as [[Topic map]]s or more sophisticated [[RDF]]/[[OWL]] based semantic networks
* [[RSS]]

; Folksomic (natural) tagging
* See [[tagging]] and [[tag cloud]]

== Technical representation formats ==

=== XML ===
* Most standards are today published as [[XML]] and most of these are built on top of [[RDF]]. But there can be multiple representation formats for a given standard. E.g. for Dublin core, one could use XHTML Meta tags or an XML file or fill in a form that then goes to a database.

=== XHTML Meta Data Profiles ===
[http://www.gmpg.org/xmdp/description XMDP] is a simple XHTML-based format for defining HTML meta data profiles easy to read and write by both humans and machine. An example would be [http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN] (XHTML Friends Network, a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks).

=== The HTML "Meta" Tag ===
HTML allows to insert meta tags (as many as you like) into the head of an [[HTML]] document.

Basically it seems that people mostly use the following name attribute values:
* "robots": (to inhibit robot indexing)
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
* "description": used by search engines
<meta name="description" content="this is a page about metadata">
* "keywords" also used by search engines
<meta name="keywords" content="metadata, dublin core, LOM">
Meta name="anything". You may use the Dublin Core taxonomy for instance, but this is only useful if you know that a specialized search engine will use it.

Note: The Meta Http-Equiv="..." attribute is used to insert [[HTTP]] directives.

== Tools ==
* [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ DC-dot]- free online tool. "Extracts and validates metadata from HTML resources and MS Office files. The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS or RDF) if required."

* [http://dublincore.org/tools/ Dublin Core's list of tools] to create, edit and transform metadata

== Links ==

; Educational Metadata

* [http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhbqfq9m_0f6mdc2 DC Education Application Profile: Candidate Vocabularies for Instructional Method and Type]. A Nice table summarizing vocabularies describing instructional method and types.
* [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_vocabularies.html CETIS vocabularies project] The JISC Pedagogical Vocabularies project was a short study, managed by CETIS, to scope the potential for identification, development and use of pedagogical vocabularies for the UK post-16 and HE communities. It produces three interesting reports with respect to metadata
* [http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/domain/metadata Metadata and Repositories] (JISC-CETIS)
* [http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Metadata Metadata and Digital Repositories] JISC-CETIS (Centre for Educational Technology & Interoperability Standards) Metadata and Digital Repository Special Interest Group (MDR SIG) wiki pages.

== References ==

* Barton, J., Currier, S. & Hey, J. (2003) Building quality assurance into metadata creation: an analysis based on the learning objects and e-prints communities of practice, DC-2003 Proceedings of the International DCMI Metadata Conference and Workshop, September 28-October 2, 2003, Seattle, Washington USA, pp. 39-48.

* Clay Shirky (2003). The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview, [http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html HTML]

* Foroughi, R. (2004). Proposing New Elements for Pedagogical Descriptions in LOM. In: Uskov, V. (Ed.). Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, August 16-18, 2004, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Acta Press. 328-332

* Kalz, M.; H. Drachsler, J. van Bruggen, H. Hummel and R. Koper (2008). Wayfinding Services for ''Open Educational Practices. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning'' (iJET), Vol 3, No 2 (2008). [http://online-journals.org/i-jet/article/view/220 Abstract/PDF]

* Mason, J. & Sutton, S. (2005). Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Education Working Group. Draft Proposal.

* Powell, Andy (2003). Expressing Dublin Core in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, [http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/] , retrieved 13:18, 12 April 2007 (MEST).

* Larry Kollar (2007). Heresy the Third: Metadata is for Computers. ''Blog Entry''. [http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-BLFrRSM1crQ40jjr38W8Q2JQtELQ?p=25 HTML], retrieved 18:57, 7 May 2007 (MEST) (good classification of metadata types)

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