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eGovernment Metadata Standard
Colette Coles, Cabinet Office Ankara,
Turkey 16-18 March 2005
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Definitions

• Element
• Properties, attributes, characteristics
• Refinement
• Narrower or more specific meaning to an element
  
• Encoding schemes
• Information to help interpret value of a term

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Meta tag example
ltmeta nameeGMS.subject.category SchemeGCL Contente-governmentgt ltmeta nameeGMS.subject.category SchemeGCL Contente-governmentgt ltmeta nameeGMS.subject.category SchemeGCL Contente-governmentgt ltmeta nameeGMS.subject.category SchemeGCL Contente-governmentgt
Element Refinement Scheme Value
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Mandatory elements
Creator All
Date All
Subject.category All
Title All
Accessibility For websites
Identifier For websites
Publisher For websites
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Recommended elements
Coverage All
Language All
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Optional elements
Audience All
Contributor All
Description All
Disposal All
Format All
Relation All
Rights All
Source All
Status All
Type All
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Optional records management elements
Addressee RM
Aggregation RM
Digital signature RM
Location RM
Mandate RM
Preservation RM
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• Figure 1 Basic e-GMS Model

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Functions

• Functions are significant activities performed
  with the resources
• web resource discovery
• transfer of records to The National Archives
• Each function will be defined formally, in
  natural language
• No agreed list of functions at present
• Functions must be at a high level, reasonably
  concise, and not proliferate into an unmanageably
  large set

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Application Profiles

• Metadata required to perform certain functions
• An application profile will be defined to meet
  the functions requirements, including functional
  and standards compliance requirements
• A resource can have several metadata application
  profiles
• Some application profiles may apply to more than
  one function
• Application profiles will be defined in
  human-readable form
• Need a Binding for implementation

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Binding Types

• Encoding and representing metadata (HTML, XML
  and RDF/XML)
• A binding type specifies the syntax used to
  encode the metadata
• Some application profiles can be represented
  using more than one binding type
• Most binding types will be applicable to several
  application profiles
• The resulting Binding specifications are
  represented in the model by the binding block.

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Bindings

• A binding is an application profile represented
  according to the specifications of one binding
  type.
• This combination will enable software developers
  to build software that complies with a wide range
  of metadata standards
• Bindings will be defined in human-readable form
  with supplementary specifications such as XML
  schemas provided where required

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Metadata Records

• Metadata records associated with the resources
  held by an organisation
• e-GMS does not define how resources or metadata
  are stored
• Interoperable interfaces to these resources
  requires the exposure of records that conform to
  specific e-GMS bindings

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Metadata Term Declaration

• The terms used to construct metadata descriptions
  within a particular model must be declared before
  they can be used
• A core set of terms is made available by a global
  standards body for widespread use (e.g. the DCMI
  or IEEE) with additional terms being declared
  separately by particular national or local
  initiatives.

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Criminal records

• Identifiers
• Data elements date, address, name, gender
• Criminal offences
• Status of case
• Status of offender
• Types of courts, prisons
• Geographic location of courts, prisons
• Physical location of records
• Disposal and retention
• Related resources birth certificate

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Information and advice

• GovTalk site www.govtalk.gov.uk
• GovTalk email govtalk_at_cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk
• Metadata documents www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemasstand
  ards/metadata.asp
• Guidance on the use of metadata in e-Government
  www.cenorm.be/cenorm/businessdomains/businessdomai
  ns/isss/cwa/meta-datadc.asp