Projects Using Dublin Core Metadata Organized
by Geographical Region
Asia and Australasia
Australia
Australasian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL)
Homepage: http://avel.library.uq.edu.au
The Australasian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL) is a gateway
to quality Australasian engineering and information technology
web-based resources. AVEL project documentation (including metadata
schema and metadata manual) can be found at
http://avel.library.uq.edu.au/AVELdocumentation.html
Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre (AGCRC)
Home page: http://www.agcrc.csiro.au
The AGCRC, a collaboration between two public research organisations
and two universities, is using the WWW as a primary delivery system
for the results of its research. The results are composed of a
variety of materials presented as a number of different resource
types. The project is using two different metadata systems for
text and numeric data and a link has been made between them.
Australian Government Locator Service (ALGS)
Home page: http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/summary.html
AGLS was developed in late 1997 as the resource discovery metadata
standard for Australian governments and was endorsed for use by
all levels of government in Australia in November 1998. AGLS is
a qualified metadata standard based on Dublin Core, and consists
of 19 elements - the 15 DC elements plus an additional four that
were considered necessary in the Australian government context.
AGLS goes beyond DC in being aimed at resource discovery and retrieval
and was developed from the outset with the intention that it would
be used to describe both online and off-line government resources.
Business Entry Point (BEP)
Home page: http://www.business.gov.au/
The Australian Government's Business Entry Point (BEP) is an
initiative to make it easier for Australian businesses to deal
with government. It provides a gateway to regulations, services
and resources from the Federal Government and all Australian States
and Territories. The BEP's metadata is based on Dublin Core and
the Australian Government Locator Service, and is detailed at
http://about.business.gov.au/bep/agencies/provinfo/metadata/metadata.htm
Currently, all metadata is collected in a central database where
organisations register their content, but work is underway to
access metadata held remotely. Substantial work has also been
done to automate the creation of metadata.
DSTC (Distributed Systems Technology Centre)
Home page: http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/
The DSTC is participating in the W3C Resource Description Framework
(RDF) Working Group. The DSTC plans to develop a specification
of the Dublin Core metadata element set in RDF (with examples
of Dublin Core instances and extended schemas), tools for the
user to create RDF compatible Dublin Core metadata and services
to index RDF compatible Dublin Core metadata and provide search
interfaces.
EdNA (Education Network Australia)
Home Page: http://www.edna.edu.au/metadata
EdNA is a collaborative project between all Australian States
and Territories and all sectors of education and training; schools,
vocational education and training, adult community education,
and higher education. EdNA is using a metadata standard based
on Dublin Core.
Environment Australia
Home page: http://www.environment.gov.au/
Environment Australia is utilizing Dublin Core for its Web metadata
and internal searches. The Environment Australia On-line Service
is a site dealing with Australia's Environment and has over 8,000
on-line documents serving up over 1 GB of information, with further
links into a range of databases.
Full project documentation will be forthcoming, but in the meantime,
a document outlining Environment Australia's use of Dublin Core
can be found at
http://www.environment.gov.au/www-standards/EA_DC.html
Meta Matters
Home page:http://www.nla.gov.au/meta/
This Website is intended to help Web content providers improve
the effectiveness of searching for information resources on the
World Wide Web. Difficulties in finding scattered Web resources
have prompted the development of simplified metadata standards
which could be used by authors, or Web content creators/publishers,
to facilitate easier access for Web users. The National Library
encourages any initiative which seeks to implement standard metadata
schemas such as the Dublin Core.
MetaChem
Home page: http://metachem.ch.adfa.edu.au/
Metachem is a single Web-based focal point for access to chemistry
information resources of all kinds. The gateway provides access
to Internet information such as electronic chemistry publications
and databases, reseach projects, data sources, software, online
teaching modules, directories, conferences, etc. In addition,
the gateway provides links, through library catalogues and document
delivery services, to print information.
Metadata Project of State Library of Queensland
Home page: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/meta/overview.htm
Home page of State Library of Queensland: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au
The Project's purpose is to embed metadata in the State Library of Queensland's
Web pages. It is also an initial attempt to set standards for metadata deployment
in Queensland libraries.
Picture Australia
Home Page: Picture Australia
The Picture Australia service has been provided for use by all Australians
to discover our heritage as documented in pictures. Through a single access point,
it is possible to search the distributed image collections of many significant
cultural institutions, without having to know where the images are held.
The Picture Australia service has been provided for use by all Australians
to discover our heritage as documented in pictures. Through a single access point,
it is possible to search the distributed image collections of many significant
cultural institutions, without having to know where the images are held
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Victorian Education Channel
Home Page: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/
(Site is still under development)
The Victorian Education Channel (an educational gateway for the
State of Victoria, Australia) has been developed to integrate
access to educational information and services available on the
web. In particular, it provides integrated access to resources
from the Department of Education, Employment and Training (DEET),
Victoria and associated providers. It also supports discovery
of other resources pertinent to Victorian education. The Channel
is for teachers, students, parents and the community - anyone
requiring information with an educational focus - and covers all
sectors of education from early school to tertiary and vocational.
Korea
Article Union Cataloging System (AUCS)
Home page: http://sric.kric.ac.kr:5003/kric_index.html
The Article Union Cataloging System (AUCS) is an online cataloging
system based on Dublin Core. It produces metadata for articles
which local universities hold and builds "Central Union Meta
DB" at KERIS (Korea Education & Research Information
Service).
For location information of each document, KERIS defined "Holding"
element in addition to 15 basic elements of Dublin Core. Now KERIS
plans to improve the cataloging system from PC client-based to
web-based for general use.
The Central Union Meta DB includes academic journal articles
and dissertations for researchers. KERIS serves as one major digital
library in Korea providing education and research information
to users on a national level.
New Zealand
Te Kete Ipurangi - the Online Learning Centre
Home page: http://tki.org.nz
This national site, an initiative of New Zealand's Ministry of
Education, is being developed and managed by The
Learning Centre Trust to support the growing online education
community in New Zealand.
The current online version is phase 1 of a two phase project.
The second phase will see the site re-launch early in 2000 as
a bilingual education portal+ site which will provide visitors
with both quality-assured content and links to evaluated online
education resources. The site will continue to be developed and
expanded by the Trust over the next two years and the site invites
contributions from the New Zealand and global education communities.
The Trust is currently in the process of developing a National
Education Standard which will define a Dublin Core education set
and an education metadata set for TKI. The Trust hopes that this
will be developed in collaboration with the Department of Education,
Victoria, Australia so that an Australasian set can be explored.
The Trust plans to make available to authors of other New Zealand
education sites, tools which will assist them to apply the agreed
Education Standards to the content they produce.
For more information about this project, contact the Project
Director, Jill Wilson at jill@tki.org.nz.
Taiwan
Resources Organization and Searching Specification (ROSS)
Home page: http://ross.lis.ntu.edu.tw
Under the Taiwan Digital Museum Project (sponsored by the National
Science Council), we are developing metadata for various kinds
of objects (historical records, cultural objects, paintings, maps,
photos, butterfly, etc.), and we adopted Dublin Core as our "core
elements."
Thanks to Nancy Morgan (nmorgan@iis.syr.edu)
for her assistance in keeping the project information up-to-date.
Additions, deletions and changes to this list are welcomed. Please
submit all information to dc@oclc.org |
