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Adoption of Dublin Core by Governments

Australia

• Original recommendation for the development of a resource discovery metadata standard for Australian government use, http://www.dcita.gov.au/ogo/imsc/chapter6.htm
• Mandate for Commonwealth agency use of AGLS for resource description, http://www.govonline.gov.au/projects/strategy/GovOnlineStrategy.htm#STRATEGICPRIORITY2
• The AGLS pages on the National Archives Website, http://www.naa.gov.au/agls

Canada

• TBITS 39: Treasury Board Information Management Standard, Part 1: Government On-Line Metadata Standard,
  http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/its-nit/standards/tbits39/crit391_e.asp
• NCTTI 39: Normes de l'information et de la technologie du Conseil du Trésor, Partie 1: Norme des métadonnées du Gouvernement en direct, http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/its-nit/standards/tbits39/crit391_f.asp

Denmark

• Use of Dublin Core in general, http://www.oio.dk
• Use of Dublin Core for dynamic web-sites, http://www2.si.dk/netsteder/raad/metadata/index.html
• Use of Dublin Core for static electronic publications ("Net-publications"), http://www2.si.dk/netsteder/netpublikationer.html
• Use of Dublin Core for electronic forms, http://www2.si.dk/netsteder/publ/eblanketter/

Finland

• Finnish Dublin Core extension for government publications (in Finnish): http://www.intermin.fi/juhta/suositukset/jhs143.htm
• It is fully compliant superset of the SFS 5895, the Finnish DC.

Ireland

• Irish Public Service Metadata Standard (IPSMS), http://www.gov.ie/webstandards/metastandards/index.html

Through this URL is the User Guide entry page and access to the framework document (Parts 1 & 2). The Dublin Core Metadata Standard forms the basis of the IPSMS, which in essence, is the set of rules and guidelines for implementation of metadata.

New Zealand

• NZGLS schema and related documents on the New Zealand E-government website:
  http://www.e-government.govt.nz/nzgls/index.asp

United Kingdom

• Towards e-Government: e-Government Metadata Framework, http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/interoperability/metadata_document.asp?docnum=473
• Documents relating to the e-Government Metadata Framework, http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/interoperability/metadata.asp?order=title
• An Introduction to the e-Government Metadata Framework,
  http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/publications/frameworks/metadata/metadata.htm
• Cumming, Maewyn. 2001. Metadata in the UK. In DC-2001: Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001. http://www.nii.ac.jp/dc2001/proceedings/product/paper-40.pdf