Tools

Commercial Software
(The inclusion of commercially available software by the Dublin Core implies no endorsement of any kind.)

• Metabrowser

  Metabrowser is a Web Browser that shows Metadata and Web Pages simultaneously. The commercial version also allows metadata to be edited and created. The product supports Templates and a customised Macro Language. Schemas and Encoding Schemes are able to be read in from disk or from the Internet.

  Metadata creation is available from the downloaded version for 30 days. The Web Browser and Metadata display is not limited and is public domain.

  Site: http://metabrowser.spirit.net.au
  Download: http://metabrowser.spirit.net.au/download/metabrowser.exe

• TagGen - Dublin Core Edition

TagGen Dublin Core is a metatag generator that is use to create metatags in an enhanced wizard interface. Using the TagGen Wizard you can add Page Properties, Site Properties, PICS Properties, and all other search engine related metadata.

Other features include the ability to:

• Import existing metadata automatically.
• View how your site will appear to the search engines with our metadata analysis module.
• Update 1 or 100 pages in seconds with the click of a button.
• Update Web documents with intellectual property specific elements. Select your entire Web site document collection and apply information like publisher, author, company, and copyright statement, as well as copyright tag.
• Update Web documents with site-specific default elements. Select your entire Web site document collection and apply information like expiration, archive, reply-to, PICS, and/or other controlled vocabulary.
• Generate the keywords for all documents in your site via batch and the HiSoftware keyword density checker.
• Use batch to generate XML records for your entire document collection.

This product is used by libraries, state agencies and schools around the country, including The State of Minnesota (please see link below): http://bridges.state.mn.us/taggen.html

For more information:

Dana Louise Simberkoff
Vice President, Business Development
Hiawatha Island Software Company

Metadata Related Tools

Utilities

• DC-assist
  a small, flexible help utility for metadata applications and is intended to complement the help pages embedded within existing software.

Creating Metadata (Templates)

• Nordic DC metadata creator (including URN generator)
  http://www.lub.lu.se/cgi-bin/nmdc.pl
  
  Variants on this template:
  • InDoReg, Danish National Bibliography
    http://purl.dk/metadata/meta_lang.htm
  • National Library of Denmark, template for publishers
    http://www.pligtaflevering.dk/anmeld/anmeld.pl
  • National Library of Finland, Finnish version
    
  • SAFARI Swedish Research Database
    http://safari.hsv.se/metadata/safari.pl?lang=sv
  • DC-Template: Dublin Core Metadaten Generator (simple)
    http://www.bsz-bw.de/diglib/medserv/konvent/metadat/dcmake2t.html
  • DC-Template: Dublin Core Metadaten Generator (complete)
    http://www.bsz-bw.de/diglib/medserv/konvent/metadat/dcmake1t.html
• DC-dot (UKOLN)
  http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/
• DC-dot Java (UKOLN), requires Java 1.1
  ftp://ftp.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/tools/dcdot/java/
• EdNA Metadata Editor (Australia)
  http://flare.dstc.edu.au/cgi-bin/edna/reg.cgi
• AHDS; Newcastle DC creator
  
• Medical Metadata Creator (Oregon Health Sciences University; combination of DC-dot, Paul Millers template and H. Suarez' and G. Malet's medical subject terms generators)
  http://www.ohsu.edu/dmice/
• Mathematics Metadata Markup Editor 2.2 (Germany)
  http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/
  projects/META/
• My Meta Maker (Germany - Physics)
  http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/EPS/mmm/
• Deutscher Bildungsserver (Germany)
  
• GEM Gateway to Educational Materials (ERIC)
  
• Denmark Department of Health/DTV:
  publications http://www.nnc.dk/meta_pub.htm
  
• Reggie (DSTC - Australia) a specific configuration file has to be given as input to the tool
  http://metadata.net/dstc/
• Swedish Environet
  
• Swedish National Library, Svesoek
  

Tools for the Creation/Change of Templates

• Reggie (DSTC - Australia) a specific configuration file has to be given as input to the tool
  http://metadata.net/dstc/
• Mantis: Administration, create a template without knowing XML
  http://purl.oclc.org/mantis/

Automatic Extraction/Gathering of Metadata

• DC-dot extracts and validates metadata from HTML resources and MS Office files.
  http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/
• Mantis
  http://purl.oclc.org/mantis
• HotMETA
  http://purl.org/dstc/hotmeta

Automatic Production of Metadata

• Klarity - automatically generates metadata for HTML pages based on concepts found in the text.
  http://www.klarity.com.au/
• Scorpion (automatic classification to DDC)
  http://purl.oclc.org/scorpion
• Nordic URN generator; integrated into the DC metadata creator
  http://www.lub.lu.se/cgi-bin/nmurn.pl

Conversion Between Metadata Formats

• Nordic Metadata Project: DC to MARC converter
  http://www.bibsys.no/meta/d2m/
• DC-dot extracts and validates metadata from HTML resources and MS Office files.
  http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/

Integrated (Tool) Environments

• BIBLINK
  
• DONOR
  
• Mantis
  http://purl.oclc.org/mantis

Additions, deletions and changes to this list are welcomed. Please submit all information to dc@oclc.org