Meaningful Bibliographic Metadata (M2B) : Recommendations of a set of metadata properties and encoding vocabularies
M2B is intended to assist content providers in selecting appropriate metadata properties for the creation, management and exchange of meaningful bibliographic information in open repositories. Its objectives include:
To provide a set of common metadata properties;
To encourage the use of authority data, controlled vocabularies, and syntax encoding standards;
To recommend the use of URIs as names for things [1], especially for data values, when they are available.