Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe

Here is a great find for the meta data maven. This site elegantly visualizes the most heavily used metadata standards in the cultural heritage community. The standards are evaluated on their strength of application to defined categories in each of four axes: community, domain, function, and purpose. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons license, so you can take the image file and print out a poster size hard copy locally.

A metadata standard glossary is available in poster or pamphlet form. This is a metadata gem.

Oil Spill Information

The current oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to have an enormous environmental and economic impact for the gulf region. This is provides updated information regarding the spill, information specific for each State effected, social media links, area contingency plans, and more.

Tudor Effigies

Finding resources for researching period clothing can be difficult. One researcher has taken a novel approach to researching and providing information regarding 16th century dress, especially the dress of the middle class.

Tudor Effigies provides a database of Church effigies as a resource for researching period clothes covering the sixteenth century. Church effigies often offer life-size details of middle class clothing which is generally absent in other resources.

Dr Jane Malcolm-Davies of the Textile Conservation Centre, Winchester School of Art, provides the research methodology that went into this project.