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AGLS Metadata Standard Part 2 - Usage Guide - in pdf format (653kb)
(This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). National Archives of Australia, Version 2.0, July 2010. "... This part Two is an entry point for those wishing to implement the AGLS Metadata Standard for the online description of online or offline resources. It provides details on the use of AGLS metadata and how to assign metadata to resources. This makes resources easier to locate on the Internet. This Part explains how to use AGLS metadata properties to describe resources at an abstract level to make them easier to locate. It includes examples of the use of each property. This Part of the Standard also includes information about certain business issues that need to be resolved when making a decision to implement AGLS metadata. Although examples are given, this Part does not prescribe an encoding method..."
Further information on AGLS Metadata Standard Part 2 - Usage Guide - in pdf format (653kb)
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- AGLS Metadata Standard Guide to expressing AGLS metadata in RDF - in pdf format (938kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). National Archives of Australia, Version 1.0, July 2010. "The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. It is particularly intended for representing metadata such as the title, author and creation date of a resource, copyright and licensing, or the availability a shared resource. RDF can also be used to represent information about things that can be identified online even if they are only available offline. This document provides guidelines for expressing AGLS metadata using RDF. This Guide is for use with AGLS Metadata Standard Part 1: Reference Description, which explains the semantics of the AGLS properties, and AGLS Metadata Standard: Guide to expressing AGLS metadata in XML, which explains the XML syntax of AGLS properties. AGLS Metadata Standard Part 2: Usage Guide gives a general overview of AGLS implementation, includes information about certain business issues that need to be resolved when making a decision to implement AGLS metadata, and examples in HTML and XHTML. This document assumes a basic knowledge of the concepts of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and RDF and is intended for those familiar with XML/RDF and wishing to implement AGLS..."
- AGLS Metadata Standard Guide to expressing AGLS metadata in XML - in pdf format (570kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). National Archives of Australia, Version 1.0, July 2010. "This document is an entry point for those familiar with eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and wishing to implement the AGLS Metadata Standard for the online description of online or offline resources using XML. This Guide is for use with AGLS Metadata Standard Part 1: Reference Description, which explains the semantics of the AGLS properties, and should not be used without reference to that document. AGLS Metadata Standard Part 2: Usage Guide gives a general overview of AGLS implementation, includes information about certain business issues that need to be resolved when making a decision to implement AGLS metadata, and examples in HTML and XHTML..."
- AGLS Metadata Standard Part 1 - Reference Description - in pdf format (1005kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). National Archives of Australia, Version 2.0, July 2010. "This revision is renamed the AGLS Metadata Standard. It was reissued as AS 5044-2010 on 30 June 2010. It takes into account changes introduced by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) in January 2008 in support of automated processes for identifying and interpreting the meanings implied in natural language (known as 'semantic inferencing'). This AGLS Metadata Standard provides a set of metadata properties and associated usage guidelines to improve the visibility, manageability and interoperability of online information and services..."
- AGLS Metadata Standard: Australian Government Implementation Manual: Exposure Draft
- National Archives of Australia, Version 3.0, 2010. "This draft manual sets out Australian Government requirements for the implementation of the AGLS Metadata Standard and provides practical advice and direction for staff responsible for coordinating agency policy and practice on web-based information and services. Comments on the exposure draft are welcome. Please email your comments to agls@naa.gov.au by 31 March 2011..."
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