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Metadata - United States
Articles and resources about the trends and issues in the use of metadata to describe services and information provided by the government in the United States.
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- Arizona Supreme Court: Metadata a Public Record
- Government Technology, October 30, 2009. "The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled -- in the case of David Lake vs. City of Phoenix -- that metadata is a public record and subject to disclosure under public records law..."
- The promise and perils of Data.gov lie in the metadata
- If metadata collection takes place after the fact, it will not succeed, By Michael Daconta. Government Computer News, July 13, 2009. "... The point is that some technologies take time to mature. That is the case with metadata catalogs — also known as metadata registries — such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s System of Registries and, potentially, the Obama administration's Data.gov initiative. Like those other technologies, metadata catalogs have been tried in many forms, but only now are we beginning to see a convergence of tools, processes and principles to make them successful. We will illustrate a few of those principles by correlating EPA’s approach with Data.gov..."
- ODNI issues new metadata standards
- By Jason Miller. Federal Computer Week, January 4, 2008. "The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued three new metadata standards to improve and simplify the marking and handling of information..."
- Check the date on your interoperability policy
- Date formats are a good indicator of the maturity - or immaturity - of your information management practices, By Michael Dacont. Government Computer News, 22 October 2007. "Is your organization's use of dates on Web sites, shared drives and content repositories in compliance with its own policy or international standards? You might want to check..."
- The big picture on metadata
- By Shawn P. McCarthy. Government Computer News, 30 April 2007. "Metadata, and all the promise and baggage the word carries with it, is again a talking point within the federal government. But when government metadata is discussed, the issues of standards, compatibility and control usually follow, with various factions championing competing solutions. Thus, the metadata issue must be addressed governmentwide before real data sharing can take root. .."
- Efficient and Effective Information Retrieval and Sharing (EEIRS) Request For Information (RFI) Response Analysis - in pdf format (173kb)
(This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). General Services Administration, December 2005. "In September and October 2005, U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) Office of Governmentwide Policy surveyed industry, academia, and government agencies with an instrument that covered a wide range of information retrieval, categorization, dissemination,and sharing needs and capabilities. The intent was to identify and promote the most cost effective means to search for, identify, locate, retrieve, and share information, and assess thenet performance difference (including cost-benefits) of assigning metadata and/or a controlled vocabulary to various types of information versus not doing so..." This report details the findings.
This category last updated: 21 December 2005
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