Speculating on the future of the metadata standards landscape Jenn Riley Head, Carolina Digital Library and Archives The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Elings & Waibel, “Metadata for All” RDARDA?

DCMI Singapore Framework RDA This is important too. FRBR RDA

DCMI Resource Model (from the DCMI Abstract Model)

Do we need a new one of these? What if the atomistic, formal expression of data becomes widespread?

And let’s be sure to avoid this…. xkcd comic by Randall Munroe

Formality of expression Proximity to actual implementation Conceptual model Data model Data dictionaries Element/prop erty vocabularies Cataloging rules Controlled vocabularies Binding basis for Data validity rules data expressed in basis for

But, wait. That doesn’t explain how different communities use these, or how they build upon one another. And the boxes still aren’t mutually exclusive.

Element/property vocabularies World Information specialists Libraries/archives/ museums OR Element/prop erty vocabularies World Information specialists Libraries/archives/ museums

A new framework will emerge. But we need to help articulate it.

Thank you! Fractal image by Jonathan Zander CC BY-SA 3.0