XMEG System Documentation: Introduction

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XMEG stands for 'XML Metadata Editor/Generator'. It enables users to:

• View different multimedia resources (text, image, audio, video, 3d objects).
• Attach descriptive metadata about resources.
• Attach both written and spoken annotations as well as view annotations added by other people.
• Define user profiles describing different users of the system.
• Define specific rights requirements that restrict access (based on users' profiles) to secret or sacred resources.
• Specify specific 'tribal care' constraints for the preservation/protection of sensitive objects.
• Provides a mechanism for tradition owners to customise the software to comply with their particular collections, laws and/or protocols.

XMEG uses only free and/or open source software and is available free upon request from the Indigenous Knowledge Management project website.

This system documentation consists of three main sections: A functional overview of the system, an operation guide which includes installation information and a user manual.

Other good sources of information are:

• The Indigenous Collections Management project website at http://metadata.net/IKM. Includes a screen capture video of the software in use.
• Hunter, J. Koopman, B., Sledge, J. Software Tools for Indigenous Knowledge Management. Museums and the Web 2003, September 2003.