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== Standards of interest to education ==
== Standards of interest to education ==


; Languages to create taxonomies
; Languages to create taxonomies for objects like web pages or learning objects
* [[Dublin Core]]
* [[Dublin Core]]
* [[Learning Object Metadata Standard]]
* [[Learning Object Metadata Standard]]
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; Bibliographic
; Bibliographic
* Library standards such as MARC
* Library standards such as MARC
* Bibliographic Citation standards like APA
* Bibliographic [[Citation]] standards like APA (see also [[reference manager]]s)


; Organizing, describing information
; Organizing, describing information
* Information Space standards such as Topic Maps or more sophisticated RDF/OWL based semantic networks
* Information Space standards such as [[Topic map]]s or more sophisticated [[RDF]]/[[OWL]] based semantic networks
* [[RSS]]
* [[RSS]]



Revision as of 15:19, 10 April 2007

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Definition

From the Wikipedia:Metadata: Metadata (Greek: meta- + Latin: data "information"), literally "data about data", are information about another set of data.

Standards of interest to education

Languages to create taxonomies for objects like web pages or learning objects
Bibliographic
Organizing, describing information
  • Information Space standards such as Topic maps or more sophisticated RDF/OWL based semantic networks
  • RSS
Folksomic (natural) tagging

References

Clay Shirky (2003). The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview, HTML