Hello all,
Just to remind ourselves that the standards that we develop for the heritage
sector need to operate within a wider context, I thought list members might
be interested to see the following, courtesy of Paul Miller at UKOLN (see
message below).
In particular, of relevance to our interests, the government Draft Metadata
Framework document includes in its executive summary the statement "A
scoping study is therefore in hand to determine the possibilities of a
structured, controlled list of subject terms, a pan-government thesaurus.
This could radically improve citizens' access to official information and
become an essential tool in the drive to improve information management and
retrieval across government".
Comments are needed by 3rd February.
Edmund Lee
FISH Coordinator
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Miller [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 January 2001 09:14
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Subject: UK Government Metadata Framework released for comment
All,
the UK Government's Dublin Core-based e-Government Metadata Framework has
finally been released for comment.
The deadline for comments is 3 February.
The document is available in PDF form, along with a comment system, at
http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/.
Go to the "What's New" section, and select "Meta RFC 1 - e-government
Metadata Framework".
Paul
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