This information has not been updated since 1997. Readers who are interested in more up to date information than that presented here should consult the ALCTS bibliography at: http://www.ala.org/alcts/publications/netresources/bib_main.html
Below is a list of metadata schema and proposals that have the potential of being widely used as standards for the description of materials in an electronic environment. Some of the projects listed below were discovered through an email query directed at several listservs. The rest were located through an assortment of searches and referrals. Click here for a summary of the query responses.A more comprehensivee list
of metadata resources can be found at the IFLA site
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/metadata.htm as well as in the following more specialized
lists:
EPA Scientific Metadata Standards Project
IEEE Metadata Information Sources