Library Metadata Cataloguing

• RDF
• Text Encoding Initiative
• Z39.50

• Bibliographic Formats and Standards  - Library of MARC information with descriptions of the different fields.
• Book Cataloger's Cheat-Sheet  - Presents commonly used codes in book cataloging, presented with both NOTIS and OCLC MARC names as deemed applicable.
• CanCore  - Official website for documents, presentations and other resources related to the CanCore Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. With discussion forums.
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative  - Organization engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards.Includes message board, forum, project details and news updates.
• Dublin Core Metadata Project  - Information on the Metadata project that started in 1999.List of participants and contact details provided.
• Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk  - Presentation of crosswalk between the fifteen elements in the Dublin Core Element Set and MARC 21 bibliographic data elements.
• Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Official Web Site  - Background on the EAD development with details on the members and gallery of different versions.
• Encoded Archival Description:An Introduction and Overview  - Brief description of the emerging standard that is the EAD by Daniel Pitti.
• Federal Geographic Data Committee  - Interagency initiative created to foster coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis.
• Geospatial Data Clearinghouse  - Presents a collection of more than 250 spatial data servers, that contain digital geographic data primarily for use in Geographic Information Systems.
• Index Data  - Offers products that help companies, libraries, and information-related organizations manage and retrieve structured information efficiently.
• MARC Standards  - Site of the Library of Congress - Network Development and MARC Standard Office. Presents information on MARC standards, particularly on how such represents machine readability for bibliographic and related information.
• MARC/Perl  - Perl 5 library application for reading, manipulating, outputting and converting bibliographic records in the MARC format.
• Metadata and Resource Description  - Introduces the W3C Metadata Activity - a project created to address the combined needs of several groups for a common framework to express assertions about information on the Web.
• Metadata Architecture and Application Team  - Presents news, system tools, information on best practices, documents on metadata, and related projects.
• Metadata Research Center  - Initiative established to foster research in the areas of metadata, semantics, and ontologies.
• Metadata.net  - Lists a number of resource discovery or metadata initiatives in a variety of fields. With descriptions.
• MetaMap  - Pedagogical graphic that illustrates metadata. Aims to provide a means for the information science community to learn more about metadata standards, sets, and initiatives.
• Simple Storefront Distribution  - Get to know this online content distribution method used by e-commerce websites to share catalog data in a format easily interpreted by computer software.