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The results from a questionnaire survey distributed to Australian institutions hosting digital collections, are presented. It was found that few metadata schemas are being used, although several others are being contemplated; that content standards tend to follow format standards; and that in-house standards are often required to supplement these. A fairly low level of resource and metadata exchange is taking place. Standards were considered important for a variety of reasons, a leading reason being interoperability. However, when it came to practice and new initiatives, there was a range of approaches taken to achieve interoperability. Some institutions concentrate on interoperability across their own systems, others focus on cross-institutional projects. Some institutions stress adherence to metadata standards, others are implementing new technologies that can handle different metadata formats and content.
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National Archives of Australia: AGLS Metadata Element Set Part 2. Version 1.3. National Archives of Australia, Canberra (2002)
National Library of Australia: Guidelines for the Creation of Content for Resource Discovery (July 14, 2004), http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/metaguide.html
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Hider, P. (2004). Approaches to Interoperability Amongst Australian Digital Information Providers. In: Chen, Z., Chen, H., Miao, Q., Fu, Y., Fox, E., Lim, Ep. (eds) Digital Libraries: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization. ICADL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30544-6_28
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