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Conversion

DC-dot http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free online tool
This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata, either as HTML tags or as RDF/XML, suitable for embedding in the ... section of the page. 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. Optional, context sensitive, help is available while editing.


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.


Crosswalks

Metadata Creation

DC-assist http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcassist/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free online tool
A small, flexible help utility for metadata applications and is intended to complement the help pages embedded within existing software.


DC-dot http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free online tool
This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata, either as HTML tags or as RDF/XML, suitable for embedding in the ... section of the page. 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. Optional, context sensitive, help is available while editing.


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.


MKDoc http://www.mkdoc.org/ (MKDoc Ltd., United Kingdom) free tool for download and local installation
MKDoc is free software and is a web application which lets you easily manage and deploy content on the internet, create and manage online communities around your website, publish materials in multiple languages. comply with e-gif / section 508 accessibility standards.


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 Oldenburg GmbH, Germany) free online tool
Online tool to create or edit metadata for online (open access) publications.


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.


Metadata Extraction

DC-dot http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ (UKOLN, United Kingdom) free online tool
This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata, either as HTML tags or as RDF/XML, suitable for embedding in the ... section of the page. 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. Optional, context sensitive, help is available while editing.


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.


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.


Metadata Generation

IllumiNet Corpus http://www.illuminet.se/software/corpus/index.xml (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.


Scorpion http://purl.oclc.org/scorpion (OCLC, USA) free tool for download and local installation
The Scorpion Open Source 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.


Metadata Harvesting

Search Engines

Translation

Transliteration

Validation

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