Appendix 2 - Glossary and References
For further definitions refer to the Dublin Core Glossary, available from: http://www.dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/
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AAT |
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Refer to: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/ |
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Administrative Metadata |
Metadata used for administrative purposes. In relation to NZGLS metadata, this would include tracking the version of the NZGLS standard being employed, and changes and updates to records. |
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Agency |
An organisation established by central or local government. |
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AGLS |
The Australian Government Locator Service, a discovery level metadata set for government resources. NZGLS is heavily based on AGLS. Published as: AS 5044 : 2002 - AGLS Metadata Element Set. Refer to: http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/summary.html |
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ANZSIC |
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification. Refer to: http://www.detya.gov.au/ |
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Archives NZ GAIMS Agency Code |
Archives New Zealand registers New Zealand government agencies and assigns a unique four letter code. Contact Archives New Zealand. |
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Author |
The person inside an agency that creates a metadata record. |
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Collection-Level Record |
A record describing a whole collection rather than each individual item in the collection, where the collection itself is treated as a resource - for example a photographic collection of images, or the home page made for an online service. |
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Content |
What's actually in a resource, or what the resource provides. |
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Date: |
Date and Time Formats, W3C Note. [W3CDTF]http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime |
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DCES |
Dublin Core Element Set. |
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DCMI |
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. The organisation developing Dublin Core. |
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DCMI Period |
A standard for expressing validity dates and date ranges using ISO 8601 : 2000 for encoding the actual dates. Refer to Date. |
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DCMI Type |
[DCT1] DCMI Type Vocabulary. DCMI Recommendation, 11 July 2000. http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/ |
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Document |
resources which are not services or agencies, even if they are not traditional "documents" - for example, a sculpture. |
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DOI |
Digital Object Identifier: a system for identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment. Refer to: http://www.doi.org/ |
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Dublin Core (DC) |
An internationally recognised core set of metadata elements on which AGLS and NZGLS are based. Refer to: http://purl.org/dc/ |
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Dumb-Down Rule |
An element value must be meaningful when no qualifiers are present. More information about how to apply the dumb-down rule can be found on the DCMI Website at http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/04/12/usageguide/-dumbdown |
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Element |
A discrete unit of data or metadata. NZGLS specifies 19 types of information that it is possible to combine to create a complete metadata set or metadata record. An element may contain sub-elements that are called qualifiers. |
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encoding scheme |
a qualifier used to structure NZGLS values, or the name of a thesaurus or controlled vocabulary that is the source of a value. Refer to Section B.2 |
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FONZ |
The "Functions of New Zealand" thesaurus. It includes both functions of government (not of agencies), and the activities on a smaller scale which fit beneath each function. Refer to: http://www.e-government.govt.nz/nzgls/thesauri/index.html |
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geographicBox |
NZGLS sub-refinement to Coverage (spatial). Use the DCMI Box Encoding Scheme, see http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-box/index.shtml |
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geographicDescription |
NZGLS sub-refinement to Coverage (spatial). |
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geographicElements |
NZGLS sub-refinement to Coverage (spatial). |
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HTML |
HyperText Markup Language. Refer to: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ |
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HTML Meta Tag |
An approach to encoding metadata in HTML documents. Refer to: http://purl.oclc.org/docs/metadata/dublin_core/approach.html |
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IMT |
Internet Media Types as defined for email. Refer to: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Internet Media Types http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types |
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ISBN |
International Standard Book Number. Refer to: http://www.isbn-international.org/whatis.html |
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ISMN |
International Standard Music Number - for printed music. See: http://www.ismn-international.org/whatis.html |
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ISO |
International Organisation for Standardisation. Refer to: http://www.iso.ch/ |
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ISO 8601 : 2000 |
An ISO standard specifying date and time formats, a sub-set of which is used in NZGLS. ISO 8601 : 2000 - Data Elements and Interchange Formats - Information Interchange - Representation of Dates and Times. International Organization for Standardization. |
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ISSN |
International Standard Serial Number . Refer to: http://www.issn.org:8080/English/pub/faqs/issn |
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Item-Level Record |
Where each individual entity is treated as a resource in its own right, so it gets its own metadata record - in a collection of photos, each photograph would get its own metadata record - used where searchers are more likely to want to locate an individual item inside a collection and there is no index or other means of doing so. |
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Language: |
RFC 3066 Tags for the Identification of Languages |
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LCSH |
Library of Congress Subject Headings. |
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LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol for accessing X.500 databases |
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MeSH |
Medical Subject Headings, a thesaurus of medical subject terms, developed by the US National Library of Medicine. Refer to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html |
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Metadata |
"Data about data ". Structured information that describes and/or enables finding, managing, controlling, understanding or preserving other information over time. Used by search engines to find records of resources which match the search terms a searcher has entered into the search engine. |
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Metadata standards: |
AS ISO 15489 : 2002 - Records Management - Part 1: General and Part 2: Guidelines |
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Metalogue |
Tool for creating metadata for NZ government web portals. |
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New Zealand Government Web Portal |
The website at http://www.govt.nz/ which provides a search interface to New Zealand Government resources. |
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NZGLS |
New Zealand Government Locator Service, a discovery level metadata standard. |
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NZSC [number] |
Statistics New Zealand Standard Classification |
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Obligation |
A set of rules outlining whether a certain element in the NZGLS element set is compulsory and must be used for all records, is conditional and must be used for certain types of records, is recommended because it helps searchers locate a resource, or is optional and only used in some situations where it will benefit searchers. |
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Portal |
See: New Zealand Government Web Portal. |
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Qualifier |
a means of refining element semantics [refer Refinement] or to provide information for understanding element values [refer Encoding Scheme]. Refer to Section B.2 |
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Record |
A metadata record made up of some or all of the 19 metadata elements which can be used by search engines to locate the record. The record describes a resource available to the public, which could be an agency, a service, online information, published information, or an object. |
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Refinement |
A type of element qualifier giving detail about an element. Refer to Section B.2 |
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Resource |
"anything that has identity" [defined in RFC 2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt]. |
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RDF |
The Resource Description Framework for metadata syntax and interoperability. Refer to: http://www.w3.org/RDF/ |
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RFC 3066 |
"Tags for the Identification of Languages." Internet Engineering Task Force, http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt, the generally accepted standard defining how languages are identified on the Internet. Refer to language. |
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Scheme |
an encoding scheme, used as a qualifier, to structure NZGLS values, or the name of a thesaurus or controlled vocabulary that is the source of a value. Refer to Section B.2 |
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Service |
A duty or piece of work done by government agencies, either directly, or through contracted parties. |
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SONZ |
The "Subjects of New Zealand" thesaurus. It provides a hierarchical list of topics which are subject to New Zealand government activity or information provision. Refer to: http://www.e-government.govt.nz/nzgls/thesauri/index.html |
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Thesaurus |
A controlled list of vocabulary terms which an author selects from to create a value within an element record |
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TGN |
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. More information is at: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/ |
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URI |
Uniform Resource Identifier - for online or electronic resources. Refer to: RFC 2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt This includes the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Uniform Resource Names (URN). |
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URL |
Uniform Resource Locator - a generalised way of locating online resources. Refer to URI. |
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Value |
the last part of a metadata element, this is the information about a characteristic of a resource. |
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W3C-DTF |
"Date and Time Formats" profile of ISO 8601 : 2000 "Data elements and interchange formats - information interchange - representation of dates and times" [2000]. |
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XML |
Extensible Markup Language. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml More information at: http://www.w3.org/XML/ |
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Z39.50 |
An ISO standard for common access to repositories for metadata. ISO 23950 : 1998 Information and documentation -- Information retrieval (Z39.50) -- Application service definition and protocol specification. Refer to: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/ |
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