With respect to the strategy and methodology adopted to formulate the metadata framework, specific actions were taken to:
Develop a conceptual map of the different types of information resources used in agriculture.
Evaluate standards and common resource description practices currently used in the agricultural domain.
Initially focus on the description of project, document and document-like (bibliographic) resources.
Identify the pool of elements and qualifiers that apply to project and document/document-like resources, in conformance with the guidelines of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Develop a specific Application Profile for description of document and document-like resources.
Document a full element description for document and document-like resources using the set of attributes recommended by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
As a result of adopting this strategy and methodology in a participatory manner with all partners of the Agricultural Metadata Standards Initiative, a list of 13 elements for agricultural resources description was proposed.
