The Dublin Core metadata element set is the leading international online resource discovery metadata standard.
Monash University’s Records Continuum Research Group is coordinating a cooperative Australian Research Council (ARC) research project on the clever re-use of metadata in eGovernment and eBusiness processes in networked environments. You can read more on the Create Once, Use Many Times project.
The University’s Enterprise Information Research Group is involved in another ARC research project to develop an intelligent portal to Breast Cancer Knowledge Online (BCKOnline). The BCKOnline project team has also developed a BCKOnline metadata schema, based on the AGLS Metadata Element Set, to support the development of the BCKOnline portal.