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  1. to identify suitable metadata standards
  2. decide in which part of the system / for which objects a certain standard should be used

 

1 Metadata Standards

NameURLComments
Schema.orghttp://schema.org
  • sponsored by several bug companies
  • project to generate free general-purpose vocabularies
  • bad description of the ontology
Dublin Corehttp://dublincore.org/
  • schema for describing documents and web-resources (not their content)
  • used by some OS/Linux projects
  • http://purl.org/dc/terms
FOAF (Friend of a Friend)http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/
  • schema for describing relations among persons
  • widely used
SIOChttp://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/
  • schema for describing online communities
  • widely used
DOAPhttps://github.com/ewilderj/doap/wiki
  • coolest name ever
  • schema for describing software projects and their dependencies
  • for data exchange between software directories
  • for automatic configuration for resources such as shared CVS repositories or bug trackers
  • assisting package maintainers who bundle software for distributors

 

2 Application of Metadata Standards

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