1' Standards for data structures and semantics

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Metadata Standards - Types

• 1. Standards for data structures and semantics
• metadata element sets e.g., Dublin Core Metadata
  Element Set (DCMES)
• 2. Standards and Guides for data content
• created to guide the practices of metadata
  generation e.g., AACR2, DACS, CCO, Using DC
• 3. Standards for data values
• value encoding schemes (link to list)
• e.g., DCMI Type Vocabulary RFC 4646 Tags for
  Identifying Languages AAT LCSH
• 4. Standards for data exchange
• may be separately designed or bound together
  with the element sets
• e.g., MARC 21

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Standards for data structures and semantics
element sets Example 1 Dublin Core Metadata
Element Set
Elements
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Components of an element set Elements,
definitions, best practices, recommended encoding
schemes
Standards and Guides for data content rules
and guides Standards for data values value
encoding schemes
-- from Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version
1.1
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Content Standards and Guidelines
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Standards for data structures and semantics
element sets Example 2 VRA Core 4.0 Element
Set
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Example from VRA Core 4.0 Specification for
element DATE
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Cont. Example from VRA Core 4.0 Specification
for element DATE
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Content Standards and Guidelines

• Chapter 1 Object Naming
• Chapter 2 Creator Information
• Chapter 3 Physical Characteristics
• Chapter 4 Stylistic, Cultural and Chronological
  Information
• Chapter 5 Location and Geography
• Chapter 6 Subject
• Chapter 7 Class
• Chapter 8 Description
• Chapter 9 View Information

• Plus
• Examples
• Vocabularies

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