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Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information

Announced this week by the Getty Standards Program, Version 2.0 of Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information has been placed online in its entirety. This revised version includes updated essays and a new piece on metadata "crosswalks." The crosswalk of metadata standards from version 1.0 (including MARC, Dublin Core, CDWA, Object ID, and the CIMI schema) has been updated and four...

https://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publi...
SearchDatabase.com

TechTarget produces Database Central, a large metasite with thousands of database resources, news, jobs, and more.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatamanagement/
SQL Interpreter and Tutorial with Live Practice Database

The Structured Query Language (SQL) "is the standard language for relational database management systems." A programmer building an online database will undoubtedly need to be very familiar with SQL, and this site is an excellent starting point. People who have never heard of SQL can learn the basics, or more advanced users can refresh their memories. The essential commands and functions are...

http://www.sqlcourse.com/
SRI International: SRI's Digital Earth Project

SRI International is a research institute with interests in engineering, information technology, and a variety of other fields. One of its current projects is dubbed Digital Earth, an effort "to create an open infrastructure that allows anyone around the globe to publish or to search for data based upon a specific location." This report describes the multiple technologies that are being integrated...

https://www.sri.com/publication/sris-digital-earth-project/
The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval

The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, located within the computer science department at the University of Massachusetts, is dedicated to "developing tools that provide effective and efficient access to large, heterogeneous, distributed, text and multimedia databases." To this end, the Center conducts a number of research activities, along with some rather compelling demonstration...

http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/