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This compilation is maintained by the DCMI Tools Working Group
Utilities
DC-assist http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcassist/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free online tool, SOAP, .net or other WebService
A small, flexible help utility for metadata applications and is intended to complement the help pages embedded within existing software.
MKDoc http://www.mkdoc.org/ (MKDoc Ltd., United Kingdom) free tool for download and local installation
MKDoc is a web site content management system that can produce HTML and RDF qualified Dublin Core metadata for every document. It also supports Dublin Core metadata via the generation of RSS 1.0 syndication feeds. MKDoc is free software and released under the General Public License.All content in an MKDoc web site is managed via a web interface and it has been designed to make the creation of usable, accessible, semantically rich and valid web sites as easy as possible. The following Dublin Core metadata can be set for every document: - Lang
- Title
- Subject
- Description
- Publisher
- Rights
In addition MKDoc automatically generates the following Dublin Core metadata for documents: - Identifier
- Creator
- Contributor
- Date Created
- Date Modified
- References
- Replaces
Mozilla Firefox Dublin Core Viewer Extension http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/73/ (Splintered, United Kingdom) free tool for download and local installation
This extension adds a button to the browser's status bar (and, optionally, the toolbar) to access an overview list of Dublin Core Metadata embedded in HTML/XHTML documents with META and LINK elements.
Creating Metadata (Templates)
DC-dot http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free online tool
Extracts and validates metadata from HTML resources and MS Office files. The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS or RDF) if required.
DC-dot Java ftp://ftp.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/tools/dcdot/java/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free tool for download and local installation requires Java 1.1
Extracts and validates metadata from HTML resources and MS Office files. The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS or RDF) if required.
Editor-Converter Dublin Core metadata http://www.library.kr.ua/dc/dceditunie.html (Kirovohrad Regional Universal Research Library, Ukraine) free online tool
This online program can be used for two purposes: as a Dublin Core metadata editor, and as a converter to UNIMARC.
After conversion to UNIMARC format, metadata can be saved to your local hard drive as an ISO-2709 file. Viewable in Ukrainian, Russian and English.
Mathematics Metadata Markup Editor http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/cgi-bin/MMM3.2.cgi (IWI Institute for Scientific Information, Germany) free online tool
Online form to produce correct MetaData as easily as possible to improve the web-visibility of preprints and publications.
My Meta Maker http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/services/mmm/ (ISN Institute for Science Networking, Germany) free online tool
Online tool to create metadata for online (access) publications.
Nordic DC metadata creator http://www.lub.lu.se/cgi-bin/nmdc.pl (Lund University Libraries, Sweden) free online tool including URN generator
Variants on this template:
Photo RDF-Gen http://www.webposible.com/utilidades/photo_rdf_generator_en.html (Webposible, Spain) free online tool
Generates RDF to describe images, especially photography.
Reggie http://metadata.net/dstc/ (DSTC, Australia) free online tool specific configuration file has to be given as input to the tool
The aim of the Reggie Metadata Editor is to enable the easy creation of various forms of metadata with the one flexible program. As it stands, the Reggie applet can create metadata using the HTML 3.2 standard, the HTML 4.0 standard, the RDF (Resource Description Framework) format and the RDF Abbreviated format. First a Schema file has to be generated.
TagGen - Dublin Core Edition http://www.hisoftware.com/trialware.htm (HiSoftware, USA) commercial tool for download and local installation
TagGen Dublin Core is a metatag generator that is used to create metatags in an enhanced wizard interface. Using the TagGen Wizard you can add Page Properties, Site Properties, PICS Properties, and all other search engine related metadata.
Other features include the ability to:- Import existing metadata automatically.
- View how your site will appear to the search engines with our metadata analysis module.
- Update Web documents with intellectual property specific elements. Select your entire Web site document collection and apply information like publisher, author, company, and copyright statement, as well as copyright tag.
- Update Web documents with site-specific default elements. Select your entire Web site document collection and apply information like expiration, archive, reply-to, PICS, and/or other controlled vocabulary.
- Generate the keywords for all documents in your site via batch and the HiSoftware keyword density checker.
- Use batch to generate XML records for your entire document collection.
Tools for the Creation/Change of Templates
Reggie http://metadata.net/dstc/ (DSTC, Australia) free online tool specific configuration file has to be given as input to the tool
The aim of the Reggie Metadata Editor is to enable the easy creation of various forms of metadata with the one flexible program. As it stands, the Reggie applet can create metadata using the HTML 3.2 standard, the HTML 4.0 standard, the RDF (Resource Description Framework) format and the RDF Abbreviated format. First a Schema file has to be generated.
Automatic Extraction/Gathering of Metadata
DC-dot http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free online tool
Extracts and validates metadata from HTML resources and MS Office files. The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS or RDF) if required.
DC-dot Java ftp://ftp.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/tools/dcdot/java/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free tool for download and local installation requires Java 1.1
Extracts and validates metadata from HTML resources and MS Office files. The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS or RDF) if required.
HotMETA http://purl.org/dstc/hotmeta (DSTC, Australia) free online tool not running anymore?
HotMeta is a Metadata Search Engine. It gathers metadata from resources on the Internet or Intranet and provides a user interface to search the resources.
StudentABC Citation Machine http://www.studentabc.com/search (SolveABC Inc., Canada) free online tool
Extract dublin core and other data from HTML pages to automatically generate an APA or MLA format bibliography.
Automatic Production of Metadata
DescribeThis http://www.describethis.com/ (eSand, Spain) free online tool
Automatic parser and generator of Dublin Core metadata for online resources.
IllumiNet Corpus http://www.illuminet.se/ (IllumiNet AB, Sweden) commercial tool for download and local installation
The Corpus Server finds and uses information structures, -semantics and -properties. Presentation is done in XML, RDF and the many schemas that build The Semantic Web. This server lets you phrase queries or just view the network and its information as a large structured resource.
Nordic URN generator http://www.lub.lu.se/cgi-bin/nmurn.pl (Lund University Libraries, Sweden) free online tool integrated into the DC metadata creator, Finish part not working anymore?
The syntax of the produced URN's is authorized by the IETF URN WG and the numbering schemes are assigned by the Finnish and Norwegian National Libraries. For Swedish URNs see also http://www.kb.se/urn/
Scorpion http://purl.oclc.org/scorpion (OCLC, USA) free tool for download and local installation
The ScorpionSource project offers software that implements a system for automatically classifying Web-accessible text documents. Scorpion is intended for use by investigators who have a machine-readable subject classification scheme or thesaurus and wish to incorporate it into an automatic classification system.
Viewer-Generator Dublin Core metadata http://www.library.kr.ua/dc/lookatdce.html (Kirovohrad Regional Universal Research Library, Ukraine) free online tool
An online form to test a URL for the presence of Dublin Core metadata. Also automatically generates Dublin Core metadata for a page that contains only traditional HTML metadata.
Conversion Between Metadata Formats
DC-dot http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free online tool
Extracts and validates metadata from HTML resources and MS Office files. The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS or RDF) if required.
DC-dot Java ftp://ftp.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/tools/dcdot/java/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free tool for download and local installation requires Java 1.1
Extracts and validates metadata from HTML resources and MS Office files. The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS or RDF) if required.
Editor-Converter Dublin Core metadata http://www.library.kr.ua/dc/dceditunie.html (Kirovohrad Regional Universal Research Library, Ukraine) free online tool
This online program can be used for two purposes: as a Dublin Core metadata editor, and as a converter to UNIMARC.
After conversion to UNIMARC format, metadata can be saved to your local hard drive as an ISO-2709 file. Viewable in Ukrainian, Russian and English.
Integrated (Tool) Environments
Metabrowser http://metabrowser.spirit.net.au (Metabrowser Systems, Australia) commercial tool for download and local installation, SOAP, .net or other WebService
The Metabrowser Server cataloging module organises web resources into our metadata repository.The Gateway Module publishes these resources on the web and gives tools to tune the repository.
The Metabrowser Client is a cataloging tool that authors metadata and stores the metadata by- Writing the metadata to the HTML file
- Writing directly to Metabrowser Server
- Copying the HMTL or RDF to the Clipboard for use in other products
Application Profiles (Examples and Tools)
GEM Gateway to Educational Materials http://www.thegateway.org/ (GEM Consortium, USA) free online tool
The GEM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites,describing the pages in a DC-base Application Profile
Search Engines
MKSearch, released under the GNU General Public License. http://www.mksearch.mkdoc.org/downloads/ (MKDoc Ltd., United Kingdom) A metadata search engine that indexes structured metadata in Web documents.
The data acquisition system: - Conforms to the Dublin Core metadata in HTML recommendations
- Supports other application profiles, such as the UK e-Government Metadata Standard
- Indexes native RDF formats, including RSS 1.0
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