4/6/11

Tools To Know About: Seeing Standards


Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe is an illustration of various standards and schema used in the cultural heritage sector created by Jenn Riley and Devin Becker from Indiana University Libraries.

Seeing Standards provides a visual display of how metadata schema and concepts are related. In addition to the colorful poster, Seeing Standards has a list of 105 major cultural heritage standards with information about what each is used for. Next time you hear a metadata reference you don't know, check Seeing Standards for a quick explanation.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks so much! This is very cool. I'd like to have a color poster for my office.

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  2. Glad you find it helpful! I find the text list of all the schema really useful.

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