The e-GMS is the UK e-Government Metadata

Metadata

The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...

 Standard. It is an application profile

Application profile

In computer science, an application profile is a set of metadata elements, policies, and guidelines defined for a particular application.The elements may be from one or more element sets, thus allowing a given application to meet its functional requirements by using metadata from several element...

 of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

Dublin Core

The Dublin Core metadata terms are a set of vocabulary terms which can be used to describe resources for the purposes of discovery. The terms can be used to describe a full range of web resources: video, images, web pages etc and physical resources such as books and objects like artworks...

.

The e-GMS defines how UK public sector bodies should label content such as web pages and documents in order to make such information more easily managed, found and shared.

The metadata standard

Metadata standards

Metadata standards are requirements which are intended to establish a common understanding of the meaning or semantics of the data, to ensure correct and proper use and interpretation of the data by its owners and users...

 consists of mandatory, recommended and optional metadata elements such as title, date created and description.

The e-GMS is part of the eGovernment Interoperability Framework

E-GIF

e-GIF is the UK eGovernment Interoperability Framework.It is an ambitious exercise intended to resolve and prevent problems arising from incompatible content of different computer systems.-What are the aims of e-GIF?:...

 (e-GIF).

Metadata elements

The standard defines several dozen elements, some of which are mandatory, the others recommended or optional. These include the following:

1. Creator
2. Date
3. Subject Category
4. Title
5. Accessibility (if applicable)
6. Identifier (if applicable)
7. Publisher (if applicable)
8. Coverage (recommended only)
9. Language (recommended only)

Related Downloads

1. e-Government Metadata Standard V2.0 (.doc)
2. e-Government Metadata Standard V2.0 (.pdf)
3. e-Government Metadata Standard V2.0 (.rtf)
4. e-Government Metadata Standard V3.1 (.pdf/.doc)

Related Documents

• www.govtalk.gov.uk page on e-GMS
• e-Government Metadata Standard v1
• e-Government Metadata Framework (e-GMF)
• e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF)
• Government Data Standards Catalogue
• UK GovTalk Schema Guidelines
• IEEE/LOM mapping to e-GMS
• e-GMS Audience Encoding Scheme (e-GMSAES)
• e-GMS Type Encoding Scheme (e-GMSTES)

See also

Examples of UK government sponsored GovTalk

GovTalk

GovTalk is a UK government initiative sponsored by the Cabinet Office, designed to encourage efficient government through the use of the internet and other modern electronic technologies...

 XML standards that use e-GMS include

• NaPTAN
  NaPTAN
  The National Public Transport Access Node database is a UK nationwide system for uniquely identifying all the points of access to public transport in the UK...
  
  
• TransXChange
  TransXChange
  TransXChange is a UK national XML based data standard for the interchange of bus route and timetable information between bus operators, the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, local authorities and passenger transport executives, and others involved in the provision of passenger information.The...