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INDECS Project
interoperability of data in e-commerce systems
- http://www.indecs.org/ (brokend)
The INDECS project was formed to address issues of metadata interoperability as relating to works containing intellectual property, with the goal of supporting eCommerce for such works. The initial work leading to, among other things, the INDECS metadata framework was completed by 2000. As such it may be viewed as a precursor to much of the current metadata-related activity relating to publication and dissemination of academic research results.
Probably the main output of this project has been The <indecs> metadata framework: Principles, model and data dictionary (http://www.indecs.org/pdf/framework.pdf). Several current luminaries of metadata design and use were involved in its development. In addition to the framework's authors Godfrey Rust and Mark Bide, the following are singled out as contributors: David Bearman, Dan Brickley, Eliot Christian, Tom Delsey, Beth Dulabahn, Brian Green, Jane Hunter, Carl Lagoze, David Martin, Paul Miller, Benoît Müller, Sally Morris, Norman Paskin and Bill Schmitt.
People make stuff. People use stuff. People do deals about stuff.
The <indecs> metadata framework is designed in for context of commerce, but "Commerce is used here in its broadest sense, not necessarily having financial gain as its object. The model applies equally to cultural transactions in places such as libraries in which people make deals that enable others to have free access to stuff""
"The <indecs> framework is designed to help bridge the gap between the powerful but highly abstract technical models such as that expressed in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the more specific data models that are explicit or implicit in sector- or identifierbased metadata schemes."
The <indecs> project is cited by the River report (also surveyed here) on respository version identification as originating the idea of "functional granularity" in determining identity: It should be possible to identify an entity whenever it needs to be distinguished. (http://www.indecs.org/pdf/framework.pdf, section 2.2)
The <indecs> metadata framework also raises the impoirtance of metadata provenance: The author of an item of metadata should be securely identified.
The <indecs> metadata framework provides a definition of metadata: An item of metadata is a relationship that someone claims to exist between two entities, which is offered as helpful in separating “metadata” from “data”.
The <indecs> metadata framework indroduces the notion of an "event" as underpinning all other kinds of relationship between terms: "... one type of entity – the event – plays a special role. The event is the "glue" of the model: all metadata relationships are either events in themselves, or rely on events to establish them. This analysis underpins the <indecs> framework, which recognises that mechanisms to transform metadata into representations of events appears to provide the most powerful approach to extensive interoperability". (This approach seems to be echoed in some respects by the CIDOC CRM Core proposal, which focuses on just four kinds of relationships between entities.)
In view of some more recent discussions, some of the more philosophical details of the <indecs> framework might be questioned, though the issues raised remain important.
Focus:=Describing Digital Objects Focus:=Intellectual Property
