Training of metadata concepts to project participants
Stakeholder group formation
Metadata harvesting
Glossary consolidation
Initial upper ontology construction (abstract data elements)
Draft data element loading
Data element review process
Publishing approved metadata elements in a variety of output formats (see below)
Creation and maintenance of versions and depreciation of unused or redundant data elements
File format metadata publishing
Organizations that create applications that store data in file systems can also publish metadata definitions. One common way to perform this is to store application data in a compressed XML file format. The XML files can be uncompressed and validated against an external XML Schema. An example of this is done by the Open Source FreeMind tool.
Metadata publishing formats
HTML - used for browsing a web site and indexing by text-based search engines
Topic maps - an ISO standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information.
KM3 or Kernel Meta Meta Model as used in the Metamodel Zoos. The AtlanticZoo is an open source library of more than 100 metamodels under EPL License. KM3 is a simple Domain Specific Language for specifying metamodels. A number of transformations are available to translate from KM3 to other notations like XMI.
