Six degrees of separation: Australian metadata initiatives and their relationships with international standards

Archival Science

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 271-283

  Cunningham, Adrian ^a  

^a National Archives of Australia   (Australia)

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(Recordkeeping) metadata standards

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EID: 33646489131     PISSN: 13890166     EISSN: 15737519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02437691     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Australian Law Reform Commission, Australia's Federal Record: A Review of the Archives Act 1983 (Sydney, 1998), p. 27.
2. Australian National Audit Office reports can be found at http://www.anao.gov.au/
3. Standards Australia, Records Management AS 4390 (Homebush, 1996). This standard forms the basis of the international records management standard, ISO 15489.
4. The E-Permanence Web site can be found at http://www.naa.gov.au/ recordkeeping/
5. Designing and Implementing Recordkeeping Systems: Manual for Commonwealth Agencies, which was jointly developed by the National Archives of Australia and the State Records Authority of New South Wales, and published as an exposure draft in February 2000 can be found at http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/ dirks/summary.html
6. See the Web site for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative at http://www.purl.oclc.org/ metadata/dublin_core/
7. Brian Lavoie, "Meeting the challenges of digital preservation: The OAIS reference model", OCLC Newsletter, Jan/Feb 2000, pp. 26-30.
8. David Bearman et al., "A Common Model to Support Interoperable Metadata: Progress Report on Reconciling Metadata Requirements from the Dublin Core and INDECS/DOOI Communities", D-Lib Magazine, 5(1), Jan. 1999. Available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/ january99/bearman/01bearman.html
9. Information Management Steering Committee, Management of Government Information as a National Strategie Resource; Report on Information Management in the Commonwealth Government, (Canberra, 1996), pp. 242-245. Available at http://www.dcita.gov.au/ ogo/imsc/imscrept.htm
10. The Web site for the Government Online Strategy can be found at http://www.govonline.gov.au/
11. Prime Minister John Howard's 'Investing for Growth' statement of 8 December 1997 and associated industry policy initiatives can be found at http://www.isr.gov.au/growth/
12. The Australian Government Locator Service home page can be found at http://www. naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/summary.html
13. The AGLS standard is defined in the Australian Government Locator Service Manual for Users, available at http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/ agls/user_manual/ intro.html;
14. while practical advice on applying the standard can be found in Applying the Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) Metadata Standard in Commonwealth Agencies, Version 1.0, July 2000, available at http://www.naa.gov. au/recordkeeping/ gov_online/agls/guidelines/intro.html
15. Information about the Australian Governments Interactive Functions Thesaurus can be found at http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agift/ summary.html
16. David A. Wallace, "Archiving Metadata Forum: Report from the Recordkeeping Metadata Working Meeting, June 2000", Archival Science 1(3) (2001) (this issue).
17. This is not to argue that archivists have never before recycled or reused metadata from records management systems - there is in fact a long tradition of this, especially in Australia. The problem, however, has been that the separate standards and separate systems have made this more difficult than it should have been. With the emergence of new standards and new electronic systems we now have the opportunity to make this process as easy and as automatic as possible.
18. The Web site of the 'Pittsburgh Project' can be found at: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/∼nhprc/ prog1.html
19. The UBC Project and its outcomes are described at: http://www.slais.ubc. ca/users/ duranti/
20. The U.S. Defense Department specifications can be found at: http://jitc-emh.army.mil/ recmgt/dod50152.doc
21. National Archvies of Australia, Recordkeeping Metadata Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies Version 1.0, May 1999. Available at: http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping.control/rkms/summary.htm