Use of Metadata Standards

Status	NOT STARTED
Stakeholders	@All
Outcome
Due date	post 2.0
Owner	Benjamin Wulff

Background

The use of metadata has been raised several time during the project and since this project is about Linked Open Data, we will definitely come to using one or more standards.

The aim of this discussion is

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

1 Metadata Standards

Name	URL	Comments
Schema.org	http://schema.org	sponsored by several bug companies project to generate free general-purpose vocabularies bad description of the ontology
Dublin Core	http://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
SIOC	http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/	schema for describing online communities widely used
DOAP	https://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

Dublin Core

Since DC is for describing the properties of a document or resource (such as title, author, dateAccepted, relates) it seems to be a good standard for describing our Decks (and Slides).

Schema.org

Since Schema.org aims to provide a general purpose (can one call it world-knowledge) vocabulary it seems to be a good standard for describing the contents of Slides.

Metadata can also help Accessibility

See https://slidewiki.atlassian.net/wiki/x/I4Aa

Related: Semantic representation