Milstead, J., & Feldman, S. (1999). Metadata projects and standards. Online (January 1999).
This reading was more or less an overview of many of the existing metadata standards. Though I was aware that different standards existed, this article gave me a whole new perspective on just how many standards are in use. Standards covered included: ISO, ANSI, PICS, RDF, DC, ROADS, CSDGM, and more.
A considerable amount of space was given to the description of Dublin Core. This included sections on its simplicity, the 15 elements, and changes.
There was also discussion of several projects, such as work on the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM), which I have read about previously and it very interesting.
Other topics addressed were address changes which they described as the "now you see it now you don't phenomenon" where web addresses randomly and constantly change making it difficult to revisit sites. This also included a discussion of the development of the Handle system, which gave sites unique IDs.
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