Every two years, I participate in international congresses, and this time I am taking part in the Latin American Symposium on Access to Government Information, held from April 8 to 10. This time, I present a contribution on a topic I had not previously addressed: “Proposal for the Development of a Web Metadata System for Public Administration.” Building on the premise of enhancing transparency and accessibility of information, including its dissemination and retrieval, a comparative study is conducted of the main metadata schemes that enable the description of public administration documentation—specifically, the Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) metadata, the widely used Dublin Core schema for describing web resources, and the e-EMGDE schema that the Spanish administration is attempting to implement. By analyzing their characteristics and classifying their labeling, it is concluded that there are inaccuracies and deficiencies that must be addressed to improve the description and identification of documentary entities, authorities, relationships, and activities carried out within public administration. To resolve this issue, a metadata model is proposed that incorporates a syntactic method for combining prefixes, simplifying and facilitating the description of all aforementioned elements by doubling the number of metadata fields compared to any of the analyzed standards. Furthermore, it is proposed that the development of a metadata initiative for public administration documentation include official metadata editors and a web-crawler search engine to enable the complete lifecycle of documentation and information, always oriented toward the citizen.
This presentation will take place on Thursday, April 10, 2014, starting at 12:00 PM (Mexico) – 7:00 PM (Spain) in the Seminar Room of IIBI at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The event can be followed via Facebook and live streaming at:
- Ustream. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cuib-ubam
- Livestream. http://www.livestream.com/iibiunam
The full paper of the presentation will likely be published in the symposium proceedings and, additionally, will be available in a few days on mblazquez.es, linked to the e-prints repository. I hope it will be of interest to all who follow this portal.
Thank you all.
Best regards from Mexico City.