Emerging metadata standards
[ Home ][ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ]Stewart Brand
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:38:42 -0700
Roy Tenant's column in the 15 Apr 98 LIBRARY JOURNAL says that some
metadata standards for digital archiving are emerging. Specifically: the
Dublin Core of 15 elements (expandable) to tag an object; RDF for tagging
archives, based on XML (the supposed advance on HTML); and EAD for
machine-readable finding.
What do pros here opine? Are these indeed emerging? Are they at least
Pretty Good? Are they likely to be stable over time?
Meta-question: is the process of emergent standards working well in this realm?