Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies in the Government of Canada: A Situational Analysis International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications Shanghai, 2004 Gregory Renaud Chief Information Officer Branch Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat

Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies in the Government of Canada Why Are We Doing This? To meet citizen needs and Government of Canada’s accountabilities through interoperability of: Web Resources Information Resources

Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies in the Government of Canada How Did We Begin? Standards Government of Canada web sites; Dublin Core; controlled vocabularies Adoption/Creation of Controlled Vocabularies Subject; Type; Audience; Format; Coverage

Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies in the Government of Canada How Did We Begin? (con’t) Governance Develop generalized criteria for including terms in GoC controlled vocabularies Guidelines on when and how to use them Management by registering vocabularies Tools Content Management Solution Web services (CST)

Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies in the Government of Canada Challenges Specific to Metadata and CV: Develop model for extensibility (element & value sets) Configuring search engines to recognize metadata

Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies in the Government of Canada Challenges More broadly: Find, identify, and leverage diverse GoC and external activities involving metadata, repositories, information architecture, etc. Inserting IM into business processes and application development