Increasing demands are being made on public sector administrations for greater access to electronic information, documents and services. A key to such access, and to the interoperability between the systems necessary to deliver it, is the availability and implementation of agreed metadata standards. While the Dublin Core is the universally recognised metadata set for information discovery over the Internet, many EU Member States are also specifying their own metadata requirements for administrative information. MIReG is the first step towards bringing initiatives in this area together.
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What is IDA MIReG?
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What is MIReG?
MIReG is a project that aims to develop extensions to the Dublin Core for government information based primarily on the national metadata recommendations of the Member States' public administrations.
Objectives
The Dublin Core metadata element set (ISO 15863) is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. It is probably the most widely used and recommended metadata set. In addition, many Member States have either mandated the Dublin Core as the standard for metadata in their public administrations or have already developed their own national metadata sets or variations of the Dublin Core. The purpose of MIReG is to look at these national recommendations and other international recommendations for metadata for public sector information and, based on these, to develop extensions to the Dublin Core for government information.
MIReG is also concerned with tools for the management of metadata through the storage and retrieval of XML schemata.
The objective of this action is to produce a metadata framework for government information in pan-European applications, with associated vocabulary control, ontologies and topic maps, and best practice guidelines.
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