DCMI Government Community
DCMI-Government Working Group
Survey of Activities
Deliverable: Survey of Government Implementation of DC
Objectives are to survey the use of DC in government settings, identify usage and implementation of DC elements and extensions, identify key challenges in implementation, and provide recommendations for future action based on these findings and discussions.
Contacts: Makx Dekkers, Palle Aagaard, Andrew Wilson
The table below is a summary of the information received in the survey responses.
Country |
Project |
Description |
Organisation Coordinating |
Website |
| Australia | Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) | AGLS is a cross-jurisdictional Dublin Core™ based metadata set, with 4 additional elements, for describing government resources | National Archives of Australia (NAA) | http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/ gov_online/agls/summary.html |
| Australia - Tasmania | Service Tasmania Online | The Service Tasmania Online web site provides a customer-focussed portal giving easy access to government services for the Tasmanian community. It does not require customers to know the structure of government in order to access the services they require. The site is completely driven by metadata, with navigation options running dynamic searches against a central metadata repository. The metadata element set used is AGLS, with local extensions as required for navigation and administration purposes. | State Library of Tasmania | http://www.service.tas.gov.au |
| Canada | Government of Canada | Common Look and Feel Metadata Standard (CLF Metadata for GoC) All GoC Web sites must adopt the following five metatags as a metadata standard for description of Web resources: Title, Originator, Language of Resource, Date and Controlled Subject. These elements evolved from Government of Canada work on GILS and are compatible with Dublin Core | Treasury Board Secretariat | http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/clf-upe/6/6_e.asp#6.3 |
| Denmark | Electronic forms | Guidelines for embedding Dublin Core™ metadata in public web-forms | Statens Information (Danish State Information Service) | http://www.si.dk/netsteder/ publ/eblanketter |
| Denmark | Metadata Guidelines | Development of guidelines for embedding essential metadata and Dublin Core™ metadata in public web-sites | Statens Information (Danish State Information Service) | http://www.si.dk/netsteder/raad/ metadata/index.html |
| Denmark | Netpublications version 2.0 | A revised guideline or standard for government electronic publications (reports, etc.) on the web. Dublin Core™ metadata must be embedded in these publications | Statens Information (Danish State Information Service) | http://www.si.dk/netsteder/ publ/netpubl2/ |
| Denmark | Public Information online - a study project, and Connecting public Information on the Web (OIO & SON) | The project has two aspects: 1. Public Information Online study project aims to propose a comprehensive metadata set based on Dublin Core™ which will ease the automatic handling and processing of public information; and to develop a Dublin Core™ metadata based search engine for the public as a demonstrator. 2. Connecting public Information on the Web aims to establish deep links between public web pages of decentralised Government agencies | Statens Information (Danish State Information Service) | http://www.si.dk/netsteder/ forum/index.html |
| Ireland | Irish Public Service Metadata Standard | Development of proposal to adopt Dublin Core™ with possible additional AGLS element. Includes investigation of scope and viability of developing a pan-government thesaurus | Centre for Management Organisation and Development (CMOD), Department of Finance | http://www.gov.ie/webstandards/ metastandards/index.html |
| United Kingdom | UK Government Metadata Framework (UK GMF) | The development of a metadata standard to be used by all sections of government throughout the UK. The elements will be based on the Dublin Core, with additions for records management purposes. | Cabinet Office, Office of the e-Envoy | http://www.govtalk.gov.uk |
| United States - Minnesota | Bridges: Minnesota's Gateway to Environmental Information | The Foundations Project is a multi-agency collaboration aimed at improving public access to environmental and natural resources data and information. Developing intuitive and easy to use search tools and strategies is the Project's focus. Staff and agency participants will catalog many kinds of electronic information resources using qualified Dublin Core metadata, including Web pages, PDF documents and geographic data. | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | http://bridges.state.mn.us |
| United States - Texas | Texas Records and information Locator (TRAIL) | TRAIL indexes and provides search/retrieval for Texas electronic publications. State agency staff report new and updated electronic publications via an online reporting form that collects this information in Dublin Core™ metadata records | Texas State Library and Archives Commission | http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/trail |