A Graphical Representation of Meta-data standards

I wonder if you could give us your assessments of a web site that recently came to my attention. I think both the site’s subject and approach are interesting and other’s views on it would be extremely useful.

The site title is “The Metamap” and it’s description is as follows:

“The MetaMap is a pedagogical graphic which takes the form of a subway map. Its aim is to help the information science community to understand metadata standards, sets, and initiatives of interest in this area.”

It is a University of Montreal site administered by James Turner and is the collective creation of students under Professor Turner’s direction. The course is offered through L’Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) at the University of Montreal.

Here is the link to the home page.

Please note that you will need to use a browser capable of displaying Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and more particularly, SVG programmed to use the Adobe SVG plug-in. Browsers *excluded* from the list seem to be those based on Mozilla/Ghecko, i.e., Netscape 6 and 7 and Mozilla itself even with the native SVG engine enabled.