Metadata Resources

These are examples of metadata resources on current federal public websites. If you'd like to suggest a resource, please contact us.

Implementation Guidance

• Recommendations and best practices from the ICGI on how to implement metadata

Metadata Models and Tools from Other Agencies

• Metadata implementation guide for web resources (Government of Canada)

• Metadata implementation guide (Draft)  (HUD)
  (PDF, 160KB, Sept 2004, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• Metadata implementation tool (Draft)  (HUD)

  • Coldfusion code for Metadata tool (ZIP, 8KB, Oct 2004, requires WinZip)

  • Perl code for Metadata tool (ZIP, 11KB, Oct 2004, requires WinZip)

Standards Development

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative