An information Paper on Metadata Sharing and XML has been added to the NOF Digitise Programme Manual - see:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/help/papers/metaxml.htm
Authored by Pete Johnston, UKOLN's Collection description Focus, the paper explains how the use of XML might contribute to the sharing of information about valuable project resources developed. The first part of the paper contains a brief overview of metadata, with particular emphasis on metadata for resource discovery. The main part of the paper then explains what XML is and provides some background on the development of the XML specification, a brief overview of some features of XML and some examples of how XML is used. Finally, there is an examination of how well XML meets the requirements for the exchange of metadata.
The full contents of the Programme Manual is available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/manual/toc/
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