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If you are using XML, it is probably already following an established metadata standard. For example, the XML tags, such as, correspond to a set of defined Dublin Core elements. Dublin Core is one of the most common metadata standards, and may meet most of your metadata needs. Read more about the Dublin Core Element Set, version 1.1. Example: “A Summary View of the Rights of British America” was the fiery pamphlet that Thomas Jefferson wrote as a 31-year old member of the Virginia House of Burgesses that established his reputation as a forceful champion of American rights and led to his being asked, two years later, to draft the American Declaration of Independence. PDF metadata standards. There are a number of standards for enriching PDF files with metadata: There are PDF substandards such as PDF/X and PDF/A that require the use of specific metadata. In a PDF/X-1a file, for example, there has to be a metadata field that describes whether the PDF file has been trapped or not. This discussion paper compares Observations Metadata and (data set) Discovery Metadata. It was developed to show the need for the term 'metadata' to be qualified within the meteorology /.

Records Management Metadata Examples

The Metadata Publishing Behavior sample demonstrates how to control the metadata publishing features of a service. To prevent unintentional disclosure of potentially sensitive service metadata, the default configuration for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services disables metadata publishing. This behavior is secure by default, but also means that you cannot use a metadata import tool (such as Svcutil.exe) to generate the client code required to call the service unless the service’s metadata publishing behavior is explicitly enabled in configuration.

Important

For clarity, this sample demonstrates how to create an unsecured metadata publishing endpoint. Such endpoints are potentially available to anonymous unauthenticated consumers and care must be taken before deploying such endpoints to ensure that publicly disclosing a service’s metadata is appropriate. See the Custom Secure Metadata Endpoint sample for a sample that secures a metadata endpoint.

The sample is based on the Getting Started, which implements the ICalculator service contract. In this sample, the client is a console application (.exe) and the service is hosted by Internet Information Services (IIS).

Note

The setup procedure and build instructions for this sample are located at the end of this topic.

For a service to expose metadata, the ServiceMetadataBehavior must be configured on the service. When this behavior is present, you can publish metadata by configuring an endpoint to expose the IMetadataExchange contract as an implementation of a WS-MetadataExchange (MEX) protocol. As a convenience, this contract has been given the abbreviated configuration name of 'IMetadataExchange'. This sample uses the mexHttpBinding, which is a convenience standard binding that is equivalent to the wsHttpBinding with the security mode set to None. A relative address of 'mex' is used in the endpoint, which when resolved against the services base address results in an endpoint address of http://localhost/servicemodelsamples/service.svc/mex. The following shows the behavior configuration:

The following shows the MEX endpoint.

This sample sets the HttpGetEnabled property to true, which also exposes the service's metadata using HTTP GET. To enable an HTTP GET metadata endpoint, the service must have an HTTP base address. The query string ?wsdl is used on the base address of the service to access the metadata. For example, to see the WSDL for the service in a Web browser you would use the address http://localhost/servicemodelsamples/service.svc?wsdl. Alternatively, you can use this behavior to expose metadata over HTTPS by setting HttpsGetEnabled to true. This requires an HTTPS base address.

To access the service's MEX endpoint use the ServiceModel Metadata Utility Tool (Svcutil.exe).

svcutil.exe /n:'http://Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples,Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples' http://localhost/servicemodelsamples/service.svc/mex /out:generatedClient.cs

This generates a client based on the service's metadata.

Non plug and play drivers. To access the service's metadata using HTTP GET, point your browser to http://localhost/servicemodelsamples/service.svc?wsdl.

If you remove this behavior and try to open the service you get an exception. This error occurs because without the behavior, the endpoint configured with the IMetadataExchange contract has no implementation.

If you set HttpGetEnabled to false, you see the CalculatorService help page instead of seeing the service's metadata.

To set up, build, and run the sample

1. Ensure that you have performed the One-Time Setup Procedure for the Windows Communication Foundation Samples.

2. To build the C# or Visual Basic .NET edition of the solution, follow the instructions in Building the Windows Communication Foundation Samples.

3. To run the sample in a single- or cross-machine configuration, follow the instructions in Running the Windows Communication Foundation Samples.

Important

Application Metadata Examples

The samples may already be installed on your machine. Check for the following (default) directory before continuing.

<InstallDrive>:WF_WCF_Samples

If this directory does not exist, go to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Samples for .NET Framework 4 to download all Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and WF samples. This sample is located in the following directory.

<InstallDrive>:WF_WCF_SamplesWCFBasicServicesBehaviorsMetadata

Preface[edit]

The Open Metadata Handbook is a joint effort of the Public Domain Working Group and the Open Bibliographic Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Introduction[edit]

This book is intended to give the non-expert an overview of standards and best practises related to publishing metadata about works. Its primary focus is metadata from cultural heritage institutions - i.e. GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives and museums).

The book was started to help us get to grips with diverse collections of metadata which we were interested in using to figure out which works have entered the public domain in which different countries. At the OKF, we have been working on the developement of automated calculation to determine the public domain status of a work (see http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators), and we soon realized that we often do not have the necessary metadata to accurately determine whether or not a work is in the public domain. We have obtained data from different sources, e.g. BBC, British National Library, but we need to combine this data in meaningful ways in order to achieve a more comprehensive set of metadata. This required us to engage in the process of vocabulary alignment, removing duplicate entries, understanding whether similar fields actually mean the same thing, and figuring out whether different data models are compatible with each others.

This gave rise to a whole new series of questions:

Technical Metadata Examples

• what are the different standards for metadata?
• how do they each relate to different types of works?
• what are their corresponding pros and cons ?
• are these standards interroperable with each others?
• are they cross-border ? cross-sector ?
• how can we integrate data taken from different sources?

This book aims to answer some of these questions in a superficial but nonetheless exhaustive way.

Goals[edit]

The Open Metadata Handbook is NOT:

• a universal guide to metadata designed for people with specialized technical knowledge.
• yet another series of best practices or recommendations on how to set up an open and interroperable metadata model.

2014 cadillac cue software updates. The Open Metadata Handbook is:

• a simple guide to tools and standards that already exist, an attempt at mapping metadata structures used by different institutions, organisations and projects, including, but not limited to, GLAM institutions.
• a series of guidelines to help people navigate the huge amount of work that has been done in this area, to help them achieve proper document discovery and analysis by means of metadata.

The ultimate goal of the Open Metadata Handbook is:

• to help anyone learn about metadata, even if they have no education on data management.
• to encourage metadata development and integration in an interroperable way.
• to make it easier to harvest and process bibliographic metadata from a variety of sources.
• to foster the community involvement in the drafting of this document.

Scope[edit]

The Open Metadata Handook is not only concerned with literary works (books, articles, etc), but also with artistic works, musical works, audiovisual works, and so forth. While the focus is generally on bibliographic works, there is a significant amount of metadata for film/video, sound and cartographic data, as well as metadata for datasets (census, etc). We do not plan to provide a detailled overview of every single standard, but rather to illustrate what is the state of the art in different domains with a series of pointers on where to find more accurate information. It important to explore how metadata is employed to describe different types of works, in order to identify whether (and to what extent) does the use of metadata differ according to the type of works taken into consideration. This would also allow us to determine what is the most preferred standard for each type of bibliographic work and why.

Table of Contents[edit]

The Open Metadata Handbook is subdivided in 5 sections:

• Introduction providing a definition of the most basic concepts:
  • what is metadata?
  • why is metadata useful?
  • how is it produced?
  • how is it used?
• What is Open Metadata
  • what does 'open' mean ? (opendefinition.org)
  • why open up metadata? (cf. Open Bibliographic principles @ http://openbiblio.net/principles - but not as strong)
  • Legal Issues
    • default position of the law
    • open licences
  • Technical Issues
    • Accessibility
    • Interoperability
    • Reusability
  • case studies: http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/examples
• Technical overview of different Metadata standards:
  • anatomy of Metadata records from different fields (3-5 examples)
  • why are there different elements & different standards
  • overview of the most common elements used for films, artworks, literary works, etc
  • overview of currently available standards
    • their objectives, historical context, their corresponding pros & cons + 'personal note'
  • overview of different serialization schema
  • examples of different fields of application (who uses what) - with e.g. screenshots
• Data Integration
  • how to integrate data from different standards, how do different standard interact with each others? e.g. protocols, interroperability.
  • how to understand different elements from different standards, from different fields, for different requirements? e.g. vocabulary alignment.
  • what are the tools available for the discovery, identification, location, and deduplication of metadata
  • examples of e.g. collection trusts.
• Appendix
  • list of resources, mailing lists, books
  • glossary

Addressees[edit]

The Open Metadata Handbook is intended for:

• GLAM institutions: to encourage them to open up their metadata, and to help them understand the challenges that must be addressed in order to provide interroperability between different metadata standards. Many institutions do not know about the metadata systems of other institutions.

This guide will point them to all the currently existing information. The goal s therefore not to harmonise the use of metadata, but to provide guidance on how can different standards interract with each others.

• People who are interested in reusing open metadata from cultural heritage organisations, but who may not know much about how this is usually structured. The Handbook must therefore be accessible for and useful to non-technical users, as well as non-specialists who are interested in consuming open data, perhaps from a variety of different sources.
• Anyone who is interested in getting a broad overview of standards and best practices related to publishing metadata about works. As a textbook, the Open Metadata Handbook should include case studies, and content based around Encyclopedia studies.

Main Contributors[edit]

• Primavera de Filippi
• Andrea Marchesini
• Jim Pitman
• Karen Coyle
• Claudio Gnoli
• John Mark Ockerbloom
• Owen Stephens
• Pascal Christoph
• Antoine Isaac
• Rakesh Kumar Pandey

Previous Material[edit]

Most of the material below is now obsolete, given the new direction which has been taken by the Open Metadata Handbook. However, it might contain useful material that should be incorporated into the new guide:

• Metadata Elements: Core metadata elements, for discovery, identification, and description of different types of work
• See also http://openbiblio.okfnpad.org/metadata-elements

• Metadata Standards: State of the art in terms of currently available standards and their different fields of application (who uses what) + pros/cons of the most popular standards concerning bibliographic works
• See also http://openbiblio.okfnpad.org/metadata-art and http://openbiblio.okfnpad.org/metadata-procons

• Recommendations: Conclusions / recommendations on what we consider to be the most appropriate standard(s) for the purpose of open bibliography. This should take the form of a decision-tree, where different data providers can answer simple questions in order to find out what are best-practices for them, in terms of exchange format and metadata format.
• See also http://openbiblio.okfnpad.org/metadata-conclusions

Useful Links[edit]