Technical standards for electronic bibliographic data/metadata  
   Subset of the Cataloguer's Toolbox. URNs, SICI, DOI, Z39.50, TEI, RDF, and Dublin Core.
   http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/standards.htm

Advanced Meta Data Architecture  
   David Marco. Architectural challenges that arise with implementing a meta data repository that requires more advanced functionality.
   http://www.tdan.com/i013fe01.htm

Metadata.Net Home Page  
   Resources from the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC).
   http://metadata.net/

UKOLN Metadata  
   Resources from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking
   http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/

Metadata at W3C  
   Metadata research at the World Wide Web Consortium.
   http://www.w3.org/Metadata/

Metadata : Why should we care?  
   By Kathleen Forsythe and Diana Brooking. University of Washington.
   http://content.lib.washington.edu/METADATA/

Metadata: Cataloging by Any Other Name  
   Jessica Milstead and Susan Feldman, ONLINE.
   http://www.onlinemag.net/OL1999/milstead1.html

What is Metadata?  
   Alexandria Digital Library
   http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/metadata/

Metadata Architecture and Application Team (MAAT)  
   Includes MAAT news, introduction, activities, and metadata resources.
   http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~metadata/index-eng.html

The MetaWeb Project  
   The aim of the Metadata Tools and Services project - known as MetaWeb - is to develop indexing services, user tools, and metadata element sets in order to promote the use of, and exploitation of metadata on the Internet.
   http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/metaweb/

University of Queensland: An Introduction to Metadata  
   Detailed explanation of metadata, schema and elements, in a FAQ format. Includes related links.
   http://www.itb.hu/fejlesztesek/meta/hgls/core/Background/An_Introduction_to_Metadata.htm

Resource Guide to Metadata  
   Reference to metadata standards for scientific, research, and education information. Site describes ontologies for science.
   http://derpi.tuwien.ac.at/~andrei/Metadata_Science.htm

EuroCRIS CERIF Task Group  
   Task Group maintaining and developing Common European Research Information Format Metadata and database format. First published and supported by European Commission for research and scientific data sharing and exchange.
   http://www.ub.uib.no/avdeling/fdok/cris/taskgroups/index3.htm

Metadata projects, resources, workshops  
   European Commission: Telematics for Libraries.
   http://www.cordis.lu/libraries/

Object Reference System Group  
   Specification group to reference images, documents and multimedia files and to build common standard XML search queries. Includes a discussion group.
   http://orsg.liquidprotocol.com/

MetaMap  
   An annotated Scalable Vector Graphic showing metadata standards, sets, and initiatives.
   http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/index.html

SMBmeta  
   Designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses provide information to search engines and directories in an open and distributed way. Includes documentation and source code.
   http://www.smbmeta.org/

XML: Metadata For the Rest of Us.  
   By Jeffery Veen. Wired Magazine. Includes an interview with Tim Bray.
   http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,4997,00.html

A Web Hub for Developing Administrative Metadata for Electronic Resource Management  
   News, links to documents and projects, and a mailing list.
   http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/elicensestudy/

Index Data  
   Specializes in the design and development of advanced software for information management and retrieval applications. Uses Z39.50, Dublin Core and XML.
   http://www.indexdata.dk/

Metadata Gateway  
   Introduces basic Metadata concepts, major metadata standards or schemas, the relationship between new access mechanisms for digital library and traditional cataloguing methods, systems, software and tools for metadata creation, harvest and migration.
   http://www.geocities.com/metagateway/

Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies  
   This standard describes the metadata that the National Archives of Australia recommends should be captured in the recordkeeping systems used by Commonwealth government agencies. The text of the standard is available in html, pdf, and downloadable as a zip
   http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/control/rkms/contents.html

Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources  
   IFLA collection of Internet metadata resources.
   http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm

Metacrap  
   Cory Doctorow's seven arguments against metadata.
   http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm

CanCore  
   Official home for documents, presentations and other resources related to the Canadian Core Learning Object Metadata Application Profile. The CanCore Profile is intended to facilitate the interchange of records describing educa
   http://www.cancore.ca/

FASTER  
   Describes a metadata project focused on creating an easy-to-use and flexible tool for access to official and other statistical data.
   http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue7/data/

Metadata Standards and Information Analysis  
   Surveys several metadata standards with the assumption that surveying the models that can serve as a basis for the metadata standards.
   http://www.geocities.com/ronaldsnijder

The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) Specification  
   Defines an XML metadata vocabulary for managing, aggregating, post-processing, multi-purposing and aggregating magazine and mainstream journal content. PRISM is defined by a working group of IDEAlliance, a publishing industry association.
   http://www.prismstandard.org/

Agricultural Metadata Element Set Project  
   The AgMES project promotes the use of metadata in description of all document-like information objects in the domain of agriculture. It is an extension of the Dublin Core element set.
   http://www.fao.org/agris/agmes/

SSD (Simple Storefront Distribution)  
   A web content distribution method used by E-Commerce websites to share catalog data in a format easily interpreted by computer software. SSD is an XML 1.0 based markup language modeled after the RSS 2.0 specification.
   http://www.simplestorefront.org

IWBase  
   This is an interconnected network of distributed repositories of proof and explanation meta information.
   http://iw.stanford.edu/iwbase.html

WebMonkey: Metadata, Mark II  
   Jason Cook's article about some independent technologies such as GeoURL, SMBmeta, Dublin Core, RDF, and FOAF.
   http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/03/24/index0a.html

National Curriculum Metadata Standard  
   Description and documentation of the metadata standard for the National Curriculum for England.
   http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/SupplierCentre/Metadataguides.htm

EServer TC Library: Metadata  
   A collection of more than 65 rated, reviewed online resources in metadata cataloguing.
   http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Metadata

Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary (PBCore)  
   Designed to provide for television, radio and Web activities a standard way of describing and using data. This allows content to be more easily retrieved and shared.
   http://www.utah.edu/cpbmetadata/

XML & Metadata Developer Central  
   Netscape
   http://devedge.netscape.com/central/xml/