Section 5.4.12 Metadata Convention
Metadata
The term metadata refers to the use of a
structured set of elements to describe an information resource and its
intellectual property rights. These elements are those required to identify,
locate and use an information resource.
Metadata should facilitate the management of Content by
those persons in roles that have been assigned responsibility for MurdochNet
Content.
The Murdoch Metadata Convention to be practiced in the
preparation of Content includes:
- the use of META tags to facilitate the management of
Content
- the display of metadata to assist end-users to make
informed decisions about the information they retrieve when accessing Content.
All Content shall, at the time of preparation, be assigned
to a Content Subcategory as defined in Section 5.1.1 Content Subcategories. This Content Subcategory shall then be used to determine the
type and extent of information to display to end-users. For example: statements
of responsibility for Content and date statements that allow the end-users to
determine the usefulness to them of information they have retrieved.
The use of metadata is intended to assist end-users in the
identification, location and retrieval of information resources. End-users
shall be able to access (eg. view) metadata, ie. the information that describes
an information resource. Metadata is therefore information about Content.
Metadata should be displayed in a structured format and make use of a set of
standard elements.
The metadata accessed should enable end-users to determine,
with some degree of reliability, the credibility or authoritativeness of
information included in Content, its relevance, as well as the currency of that
information.
Accompanying Metadata
Metadata may be maintained separately from the Content it
accompanies. It may be held in a metadata repository or datastore. In the case
of Foreign Content, accompanying metadata should be held in a searchable
metadata repository (eg. an Electronic Document Rights Management System).
Metadata that accompanies Content in formats other than HTML (eg. files in PDF
format), may be held in a configuration file that includes a set of META tags
used by a Server when a Web browser requests that Content. These accompanying
META tags may be used to describe the Content. They may also be used by a
Server to determine the access level assigned and the access restriction method
to be used for that Content.
For Content in HTML format, metadata shall be incorporated
into Content at the time it is prepared or generated. Incorporating metadata
should include, but not be restricted to, the embedding of META tags within the
header of documents in HTML, or related formats.
Metadata incorporated into Content by means of embedded META
tags, should be retrievable by Search Engines indexing MurdochNet Content,
thereby facilitating the retrieval of MurdochNet Content by a wider audience.
- Section 5.4.12.1: Metadata Elements
- Section 5.4.12.1.1: Dublin Core Metadata Elements
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- Section 5.4.12.1.2: Murdoch Metadata Elements
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- Section 5.4.12.2: Incorporating Metadata
- Section 5.4.12.2.1: META Tags & Document Information Footers
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- Section 5.4.12.2.2: META Tags & Metadata Popup
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- Section 5.4.12.3: META Tags
- Section 5.4.12.3.1: Dublin Core META Tags
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- Section 5.4.12.3.2: Murdoch META Tags
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- Section 5.4.12.3.3: Basic Set of META Tags
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- Section 5.4.12.4: Document Information Footers
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- Section 5.4.12.5: Metadata Popups
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