Issues in Crosswalking Content Metadata

Issues in Crosswalking Content Metadata Standards - National Information Standards Organization (NISO): "To reach the broadest community of information workers, metadata must be made available in accordance with a number of popular content metadata standards. As the number, size, and complexity of content metadata standards continues to grow, supplying the metadata for each standard becomes more and more repetitious, time consuming, and tedious. In order to minimize the amount of time needed to create and maintain the metadata and to maximize its usefulness to the widest community of users, there is a need for the metadata created and maintained in one standard to be accessible via related content metadata standards. " Outlines the challenges with presenting your metadata in all the applicable formats, something I am thinking about with all the XFML work going on.

# Nov 16, 2002