What is ISO 24622-2 - Component metadata specification language about?
The component metadata lifecycle needs a comprehensive infrastructure with systems that cooperate well together. To enable this level of cooperation ISO 24622-2 provides in depth descriptions and definitions of what CMDI records, components and their representations in XML look like.
ISO 24622-2 is the second part of the ISO 24622 series of standards that describes these XML representations, which enable the flexible construction of interoperable metadata schemas suitable for, but not limited to, describing language resources. The metadata schemas based on these representations can be used to describe resources at different levels of granularity (e.g. descriptions on the collection level or on the level of individual resources).
Who is ISO 24622-2 - Component metadata specification language for?
ISO 24622-2 on component metadata specification language is useful for:
- Software engineers
- Software developer
Why should you use ISO 24622-2 - Component metadata specification language?
Many researchers, from the humanities and other domains, have a strong need to study resources in close detail. Nowadays more and more of these resources are available online. To be able to find these resources, they are described with metadata. These component metadata (CMD) instances are collected and made available via central catalogues. Often, resource providers want to include specific properties of a resource in their metadata to provide all relevant descriptions for a specific type of resource. The purpose of catalogues tends to be more generic and addresses a broader target audience. It is hard to strike the balance between these two ends of the spectrum with one metadata schema, and mismatches can negatively impact the quality of metadata provided.
ISO 24622-2 provides definition of CDMI that helps in the construction of interoperable metadata schemas suitable for describing language resources.