"Colleagues,
I am gratified to report the Web Metadata Standard for Minnesota has been approved by the MN Information Policy Council. This Dublin Core-based standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.85) has been in use by many agencies, beginning with the Foundations Project in 1998. The standard is integrated into the new North Star Portal content management templates, and the state search engine is tuned to use the DC elements in results ranking. It is part of the Enterprise Architecture, along with the GIS metadata standard and the recordkeeping metadata standard.
Located at http://bridges.state.mn.us/bestprac/mn_dc_standard.pdf
Eileen Quam
Information Architect
Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources
eileen.quam@dnr.state.mn.us
651.297.2341
651.297.4946 FAX"
