This page was updated on March 26, 2010 at 10:20 a.m.
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation on XML at the Digital Commonwealth conference on March 25. This page is to follow on from that conference and act as a link farm resource for you. I'll be adding things to this page as the day goes on (and probably over the next month as well). Please check back as time goes by. After the page gets fairly populated, I'll add "New" notations to help you find what's been added most recently.
Jim Keenan
jimdotkeenanatbillericalibrarydotorg
This is the metadata standard that you'll probably be working with most initially with the Digital Commonwealth
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
MARCXML Schema
This page includes links to tools, utilities and crosswalks.
Visual Resources Association Core 4.0
Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS)
Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS)
This is a link to the Cover Pages section on METS
The Open Archives Intiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
XML is a very broad area. In your projects with the Digital Commonwealth, you are going to be dealing only with one distinct niche. Think of it like living a large city but mainly staying in the neighborhood you live in. You may not care to visit the rest of the city but, in case you do, here are some places to go. I'll warn you, though, that these are the areas where I said there might be dragons. You also may find that most of it is completely not useful to you for what you actually need to get done. I actually feel torn about including things like this because I wouldn't like to see you get side-tracked or bewildered but the tech gurus among you might be interested.
The W3C Extensible Markup Language page