Digital Libraries - A Matrix of Functionality

This first table came from Mcat, a metadata catalog

Digital Libraries - A Matrix of Functionality
	Definition Language	Manipulation Language	Language Compilers
Ontology	Dewey Decimal System Gloss Buckets	?	Infobus ADL
Schema (semantics included)	Schema Definition Language	Schema Manipulation Language	new MCAT
Metadata	Metadata Definition Language	Metadata Manipulation Language STARTS	MCAT Infobus
Server Side Proxies	Proxy Description Language	IDL Method MCAT Program Graphs	Infobus new SRB Legion
Collection	?	access API	SRB/MCAT
Resources	Globus RDL NWS Resource MCAT	none	Globus NWS MCAT	ANL UCSD SDSC

How do the above relate to the list below?

Organizing Elements
Acess Points
Descriptive Elements

Purpose of Metadata

Assist users in formulating searches, interpreting responses to those searches, and ÒnavigatingÓ the universe of entities described in metadata records.

Methods of Analysis

Entity Analysis Technique

isolated the entities
identify the characteristics or attributes associated with each entity
identify relationships between entities

Data Models	Data Exchange Formats
Dublin Core	XML
FGDC	Z39.50