For information,
Debbie Campbell
Metadata Coordinator
National Initiatives And Collaboration Branch
ph. 02 6262 1673
fx. 02 6273 1180
e-mail [log in to unmask]
http://purl.nla.gov.au/metaweb/home
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> From: Adrian Cunningham[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, 4 September 1998 3:02 PM
> To: Debbie Campbell
> Subject: Australian Government Locator Service User Manual now
> available
>
>
>
> I am pleased to announce that the User Manual for the Australian
> Government Locator Service (AGLS) metadata schema is now available (in
> both html and pdf formats) on the Website of the National Archives of
> Australia at
>
> http://www.naa.gov.au/govserv/agls/
>
> The User Manual has been written by DSTC Pty Ltd with input from a
> reference group convened by the Office of Government Information
> Technology (OGIT) and in response to a tender process funded by OGIT.
> The Manual will be an evolving document. The National Archives, as AGLS
> Maintenance Agency, will take responsibility for additions and
> improvements to the Manual in response to practical deployment
> experience.
>
> What is AGLS?
>
> The AGLS is a standard set of 17 descriptive elements which government
> departments and agencies can use to improve the visibility and
> accessibility of their services and information over the Internet.
>
> The AGLS standard is based upon the leading international online
> resource discovery metadata standard, the Dublin Core
> [http://purl.oclc.org/metadata/dublin_core/] standard. The AGLS
> standard was developed in late 1997/early 1998 in response to a
> recommendation in the report of the Information Management Steering
> Committee, 'The Management of Government Information as a National
> Strategic Resource'.
> [http://www.ogit.gov.au/publications/IMSC/imscrept.htm]
>
> The Manual provides advice on how AGLS metadata can be created and
> deployed and defines the semantics of the 17 AGLS elements, 15 of which
> are also Dublin Core elements. The Manual does not give explicit
> guidance on matters of syntax. On the question of syntax I would refer
> interested parties to the 'Reggie' tool for metadata creation. Reggie
> provides excellent assistance as regards the syntax for AGLS
> meta-tagging. Reggie can be found at
>
> http://metadata.net
>
>
>
> Adrian Cunningham
> Director, Records Control
> National Archives of Australia
> email: [log in to unmask]
>
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