A panoramic view on metadata application profiles of the last decade

Abstract

This paper describes a study developed with the goal to understand the panorama of the metadata Application Profiles AP: i what AP have been developed so far; ii what type of institutions have developed these AP; iii what are the application domains of these AP; iv what are the Metadata Schemes MS used by these AP; v what application domains have been producing MS; vi what are the Syntax Encoding Schemes SES and the Vocabulary Encoding Schemes VES used by these AP; and finally vii if these AP have followed the Singapore Framework SF. We found i 74 AP; ii the AP are mostly developed by the scientific community, iii the 'Learning Objects' domain is the most intensive producer; iv Dublin Core metadata vocabularies are the most used and are being used in all domains of application and IEEE LOM is the second most used but only inside the 'Learning Objects' application domain; v the most intensive producer of MS is the domain of 'Libraries and Repositories'; vi 13 distinct SES and 90 distinct VES were used; vi five of the 74 AP found follow the SF.