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The AccessForAll Meta-data specification is intended to make it possible to identify resources that match a user's stated preferences or needs. These preferences or needs would be declared using the IMS Learner Information Package Accessibility for LIP specification. The needs and preferences addressed include the need or preference for alternative presentations of resources, alternative methods of controlling resources, alternative equivalents to the resources themselves and enhancements or supports required by the user. The specification provides a common language for identifying and describing the primary or default resource and equivalent alternatives for that resource.

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This page provides access to the AGLS Metadata Element Set, information about AGLS, including the AGLS manual and advice on implementing AGLS for Commonwealth agencies. In 2002 the AGLS standard was adopted by Standards Australia as Australian Standard AS 5044 AGLS metadata element set. AGLS was originally an abbreviation for Australia Government Locator Service, but following the development of Australian Standard 5044 - which is aimed at a wider audience beyond government users - it was felt that Australian Government Locator Service was not an appropriate name, so now the standard is known merely as AGLS).

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This metadata profile supports the access, search, selection, use, trade and management of digital content for the school sector in Australian and New Zealand. The profile is based on the IEEE LOM metadata model. It supports the following purposes: Content management; Educational purpose and value; Technical interoperability; Copyright and moral rights; Inclusive access and Distributed delivery. The Le@rning Federation (TLF) has previously published TLF metadata application profiles that focused on supporting production of learning content. ANZ-LOM is a more widely applicable standard that also replaces earlier TLF metadata profiles.

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Attention.XML is an open standard, built on open source, that helps keep track of what attention metadata, what web users read, spend time on, and should be paying attention to. Attention.XML is an XML file (specifically an XOXO file) that contains an outline of feeds/blogs, where each feed itself is an outline, and each post is also an outline under the feed. This hierarchical outline structure is then annotated with per-feed and per-post information which captures such information as, the last time the feed/post was accessed, the duration of time spent on the feed/post, recent times of feed/post access, user set (dis)approval of posts.

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An open standard for Attention Metadata, APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers.

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This standard describes the metadata that the Chief Information Officer Committee and the National Archives of Australia recommends should be used by Australian Government agencies when transmitting electronic mail (email) communications. Its aim is to help ensure that email messages are used, transmitted and managed in ways that recognise their central significance to the workings of government.

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A primary aim of this manual is to promote consistent implementation of the AGLS Metadata Standard by Australian Government agencies. Second, the manual aims to encourage and assist Australian Government agencies to undertake AGLS metadata implementation. This manual is primarily intended for staff responsible for coordinating agency policy and practice for the provision of web-based information and services. It will continue to evolve as our knowledge and experience in applying AGLS grows. AGLS is a metadata standard designed specifically for improving the discoverability of resources, both physical and virtual, in an online environment. Organisations can use standardised and structured descriptions of resources in order to improve the visibility and accessibility of resources online. The AGLS Metadata Standard specifies a structure for metadata that can be used on Australian Government websites.

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This draft document is part of the Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata, a joint initiative between the Digital Library Federation and the National Science Digital Library. It comprises: Introduction which provides useful background; Best Practices for Shareable Metadata Content which includes general recommendation on authoring 'shareable' metadata, documenting decisions made, and recommendations on how to author certain classes of metadata elements; Best Practices for Technical Aspects of Metadata which includes recommendations for technical metadata issues including use of namespaces, XML schemas, and character encoding; and, Final Preparations, or how to check for 'shareability' before implementing your OAI data provider

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These guidelines are synchronized with the IEEE LOM standard, and include best practice recommendations for all LOM elements.

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CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model represents an 'ontology' for cultural heritage information i.e. it describes in a formal language the explicit and implicit concepts and relations relevant to the documentation of cultural heritage.