SozioNet
Perhaps it’s a function of the dominance of English on the Internet, but I’ve yet to see anything on an interesting project out Germany called SozioNet.
I quite like its MetaWizard entry interface. Building on ideas in the DC-Dot project, the interface optionally allows a user to specify a URL from which it can suck in metadata. Here’s the opening form, where you specify the type of record, the url, and the title.
Based on the input type, the user is then presented with a second form, which is rich with tooltips, and also has an elegant solution to the multiple authors issue.
Wolfgang Meier is one of the architects of SozioNet, as well as the force behind the eXist XML DB. He’s experimenting now with an XForms-based entry GUI for MODS data, and the project has expressed some interest in opening it up to contributions from an international community.
