Schema for Books, Magazines, other forms of media

Question

I am going to be working on a project that will heavily involve indexing various forms of media including Books, Magazines, Web sites / pages, etc.

What I am wondering is if there is a standard schema, xml, dtd, object model, database model, etc that anyone knows about and can point me to as a starting point or reference

I greatly appreciate any knowledge you can share, Thanks!

Answer 1

I'm not really sure whether this is any help for you:

The last time I worked with this kind of data I stumbled over the existence of Document Oriented Databases (like Amazon SimpleDB) Wikipedia on DOD. Read it and decide for yourself. It made my life a lot easier.

Answer 2

dublin core. google it or wikipedia it.