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	Visual Resources Association - http://www.vraweb.org/ Non-profit organization for advancing knowledge, research, and education in the field of visual information resources. Features newsletter, conferences, contacts and membership details.
	Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources - http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm IFLA collection of Internet metadata resources.
	UKOLN Metadata - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/ Resources from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking
	Index Data - http://www.indexdata.dk Specializes in the design and development of advanced software for information management and retrieval applications. Uses Z39.50, Dublin Core and XML.
	Metadata at W3C - http://www.w3.org/Metadata/ Metadata research at the World Wide Web Consortium.

	The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) Specification - http://www.prismstandard.org/ 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.
	Metadata projects, resources, workshops - http://cordis.europa.eu/libraries/ European Commission: Telematics for Libraries.
	Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary (PBCore) - http://www.utah.edu/cpbmetadata/ 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.cancore.ca/ - http://www.cancore.ca/ 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 educational resources and the discovery of these resources both in Canada and beyond its borders.
	Metadata Research Center (MRC) - http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/ The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library (SILS) Metadata Research Center has been established to advance research in the area of metadata, semantics and ontologies.

	Metadata.Net Home Page - http://metadata.net/ Resources from the Distributed Systems Technology Center (DSTC).
	Metadata Architecture and Application Team (MAAT) - http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~metadata/index-eng.html Includes MAAT news, introduction, activities, and metadata resources.
	Metacrap - http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm Cory Doctorow's seven arguments against metadata.
	http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/index.html - http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/index.html An annotated Scalable Vector Graphic showing metadata standards, sets, and initiatives.
	Technical standards for electronic bibliographic data/metadata - http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/standards.htm Subset of the Cataloguer's Toolbox. URNs, SICI, DOI, Z39.50, TEI, RDF, and Dublin Core.

	Agricultural Metadata Element Set Project - http://www.fao.org/aims/intro_meta.jsp 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.
	EServer TC Library: Metadata - http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Metadata A collection of rated, reviewed online resources in cataloguing.
	ML Metadata - http://www.minilibrary.org/metadata.htm Provides an introduction and internet resources on metadata for the small library.
	Resource Guide to Metadata - http://derpi.tuwien.ac.at/~andrei/Metadata_Science.htm Reference to metadata standards for scientific, research, and education information. Describes ontologies for science.
	Electronic Scriptorium Ltd - http://www.electronicscriptorium.com/ Specializes in metadata and high value data conversion. It contracts work out to monks and nuns throughout the United States.

	SSD (Simple Storefront Distribution) - http://www.simplestorefront.org 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.exploit-lib.org/issue7/data/ - http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue7/data/ Describes a metadata project focused on creating an easy-to-use and flexible tool for access to official and other statistical data.
	University of Queensland: An Introduction to Metadata - http://www.itb.hu/fejlesztesek/meta/hgls/core/Background/An_Introduction_to_Metadata.htm Detailed explanation of metadata, schema and elements, in a FAQ format. Includes related links.
	Advanced Meta Data Architecture - http://www.tdan.com/view-articles/4870/ David Marco. Architectural challenges that arise with implementing a meta data repository that requires more advanced functionality.
	XML: Metadata For the Rest of Us. - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1997/07/4997 By Jeffery Veen. Wired Magazine. Includes an interview with Tim Bray.

	National Curriculum Metadata Standard - http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/SupplierCentre/Metadataguides.htm Description and documentation of the metadata standard for the National Curriculum for England.
	Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) - http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/ Background information and a technical specification for this metadata format.
	EuroCRIS CERIF Task Group - http://www.ub.uib.no/avdeling/fdok/cris/taskgroups/Index6.htm 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.

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