Metadata Glossary
http://www.noisebetweenstations.com/personal/essays/metadata_glossary/metadata_glossary.html

Lombardi, Victor
Noise Between Stations
2004

Abstract:

In an attempt to summarize the relationship among various metadata formats and how they relate to building Internet systems I wrote a glossary. I then ordered and tied the terms together with a bit of narrative to explain the relationships among the terms.