Glossary
title: |
AGLS Metadata Standard – Glossary |
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/documents/glossary/ |
creator: |
National Archives of Australia; Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes, ACT 2600; +61 2 6212 3600 |
publisher: |
National Archives of Australia; Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes, ACT 2600; +61 2 6212 3600 |
description: |
A glossary of the terms used in the AGLS Metadata Standard |
rights: |
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2008 |
created: |
2008-05-15 |
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2008-05-19T11:04:55+10:00 |
subject: |
metadata |
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en-AU |
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text/html |
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- AGIFT
- Australian Governments’ Interactive Functions Thesaurus. An online interactive version of AGIFT is available from the National Archives of Australia website.
- ANZSCO
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations maintained by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- ANZLIC
- Spatial Information Council.
- ANZSIC
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification maintained by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- APAIS
- Australian Public Affairs Information Service Thesaurus maintained by the National Library of Australia. This is an archived resource.
- APT
- Australian Pictorial Thesaurus, a collection of topic terms for indexing Australian images. This is an archived resource.
- ASGC
- Australian Standard Geographic Classification maintained by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Includes all Australian Local Government Areas, regions and suburbs. Note: the ASGC was superseded by the ASGS in 2011
- Application profile
- A declaration of the metadata terms an organisation, information resource, application or user community uses in its metadata. This includes the set of metadata elements, policies and guidelines defined for a particular application or implementation.
B
- Box
- DCMI Box Encoding Scheme, a Syntax Encoding Scheme for identifying a region of space using its geographic limits.
C
- Class
- A group containing members that have attributes, behaviours, relationships or semantics in common; a kind of category.
D
- DCMES
- Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. See Dublin Core.
- DCMI
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. See Dublin Core.
- DCMI Abstract Model
- A set of components and constructs used in Dublin Core metadata, providing an information model independent of any encoding syntax.
- DCMIType
- DCMI Type Vocabulary. A generic controlled vocabulary for the type property.
- DCSV
- Dublin Core Structured Values. A syntax for writing a list of labelled values in a text string.
- Described resource
- A resource that is described by a description.
- Description
- One or more statements about a resource.
- Description set
- A set of one or more descriptions, each of which describes a resource.
- DOI
- Digital Object Identifier. A system for identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment.
- Domain
- A relationship between a property and a class which indicates that if the property is part of a property/value pair, then it follows that the
- described resource is an instance of that class.
- Dublin Core (DC)
- An internationally recognised core set of metadata properties on which AGLS is based. More information is available from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative website.
E
- EdNA
- Education Network Australia was a network of education information and services. The EdNA metadata standard is based on the Dublin Core set. It is no longer available. An alternative resource is the Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT)
- Element
- See property.
- Element refinement
- A synonym for property. The word element is also commonly used to refer to a structural markup component within an XML document.
- Embedded metadata
- Metadata that is stored and maintained within the resource or object it describes.
- Encoding scheme
- See Vocabulary Encoding Scheme and Syntax Encoding Scheme.
G
- GOLD
- Government Online Directory of Australian Commonwealth government agencies and employees.
H
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language.
- HTML META Tag
- An approach to encoding metadata in HTML documents.
I
- IANA
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the coordinator for the assignment of unique parameter values for Internet protocols.
- IETF
- Internet Engineering Task Force, the international community of network designers, operators, vendors and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
- IMT
- Internet Media Types.
- ISBN
- International Standard Book Number.
- ISO
- International Organization for Standardization.
- ISO 639
- Codes for the representation of names of languages.
- ISO 3166
- Codes for representations of names of countries and their subdivisions.
- ISO 8601
- Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times.
- ISO 15386
- Information and documentation – The Dublin Core metadata element set. A PDF copy is available from the International Organization for Standardization website.
- ISO 15924
- Codes for the representation of names of scripts.
- ISO 19115
- International Standard: Geographic Information – Metadata.
- ISSN
- International Standard Serial Number.
L
- LCSH
- Library of Congress Subject Headings is a thesaurus of subject headings maintained by the United States Library of Congress for use in
- bibliographic records.
- Literal
- The value of a metadata property that can be either a hyperlink (URI) or a string value (free text).
M
- MESH
- Medical Subject Headings is a thesaurus of medical subject terms developed by the United States National Library of Medicine.
- Metadata
- Structured, machine-processible information that describes and/or enables finding, managing, controlling, understanding or preserving other information over time.
- Metadata record
- A syntactically correct representation of the descriptive information (metadata) for an information resource.
N
- Namespace
- A logical grouping of metadata terms. Namespaces allow unique identification of metadata terms to allow those terms to be unambiguously used across applications.
P
- Period
- DCMI Period Encoding Scheme is a Syntax Encoding Scheme for indicating a single time interval.
- Point
- DCMI Point Encoding Scheme, a Syntax Encoding Scheme for identifying a point in space using its geographic coordinates.
- Property
- A specific aspect, characteristic, attribute or relation used to describe a resource (previously called ‘elements’). Dublin Core and AGLS
- metadata terms are properties.
- Property/Value Pair
- The combination of a property and a value, used to describe a characteristic of a resource.
Q
- Qualifier
- See property, Vocabulary Encoding Scheme and Syntax Encoding Scheme.
R
- Range
- A relationship between a property and a class which indicates that if the property is part of a property/value pair, then it follows that the value is an instance of that class.
- RDF
- Resource Description Framework for metadata syntax and interoperability.
- Resource
- Anything that has an identity. Examples include an electronic document, an image, a service and a collection of other resources. Not all resources are network retrievable; humans, corporations, physical objects and electronic documents on portable media are also resources.
- RFC
- Request For Comment, the process of establishing a standard on the Internet. More information is available at the Internet Engineering Task Force website.
- RFC 2119
- Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels.
- RFC 3986
- Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax.
- RFC 4646
- Tags for Identifying Languages.
S
- Schema
- A machine-processible specification that defines the structure and syntax of metadata in a formal schema language.
- Service
- A service exists where a relationship exists between a business function of an organisation and the identified needs of an individual client or a group of clients.
- Sub-property
- A property of a resource which shares the meaning of another property but with narrower semantics (previously called ‘element refinements’).
- Syntax Encoding Scheme
- Indicates that the value is a string formatted in accordance with a formal notation or externally defined standard.
U
- URI
- Uniform Resource Identifier is a syntax for all names/addresses for resources on the World Wide Web, includes Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and Uniform Resource Name (URN). See also Naming and Addressing: URIs, URLs, ... and RFC 3986.
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator is a technique for indicating the name and location of Internet resources. See also Naming and Addressing: URIs, URLs, ...
- URN
- Uniform Resource Name, a technique for indicating the name and location of Internet resources that has some assurance of persistence
- beyond that normally associated with an Internet domain or host name. More information is available at the World Wide Web Consortium website.
- UUID
- Universally Unique Identifier is a unique, persistent identifier capable of being generated on demand without requiring a central registration process. UUIDs consist of 32 hexadecimal digits in the form 8-4-4-4-12, eg 6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8. UUIDs are a form of URN. More information is available in RFC 4122.
V
- Value
- The content of a metadata property providing information about a characteristic of a resource.
- Vocabulary Encoding Scheme
- Indicates that the value is a term from a controlled vocabulary.
W
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium is the international consortium that develops web standards, guidelines and protocols.
X
- XHTML
- eXtensible HyperText Markup Language. A reformulation of HTML 4.01 conforming to XML syntax. See also XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition).
- XML
- eXtensible Markup Language.