DC dot: Dublin Core Metadata Editor

This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata, either as HTML META tags or as RDF/XML, suitable for embedding in the HEAD section of the page.

University of Koln. Resources>Information Design>Software>Metadata

Easy Topic Maps

Topic maps are a standard for storing metadata (similar to thesauri, or RDF). They can be used to generate navigation for a website, and lots of other metadata tasks. Topic maps are a new standard (since + 2000) and are slowly starting to be discovered.

Easytopicmaps.com (2003). Resources>Information Design>XML>Metadata

eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language

XFML Core is an open XML format for publishing and sharing hierarchical faceted metadata and indexing efforts. XFML Core is lightweight and easy to implement, yet uniquely powerful.

Van Dijck, Peter. XFML.org (2003). Resources>Information Design>Metadata>XFML

Publications on Thesaurus Construction and Use

This is a list of printed and electronic publications about the principles of constructing and using information retrieval thesauri. It is not a list of existing thesauri, although some thesauri have been included when they are good examples or illustrate the results of different approaches to thesaurus construction.

Willpower Information (2008). Resources>Information Design>Metadata>Controlled Vocabulary