Australian Government Locator Service. This is a Metadata standard developed to promote consistent application of metadata by agencies across the Commonwealth. This metadata is usually invisible to the end user, and can be stored in HTML 'metatags' or in a Metadata repository or directory - which can then be interrogated or harvested by external search engines. See the Guide's Metadata (AGLS) page.

Australian Government Locator Service is the Australian Government metadata standard. The AGLS metadata standard was developed to promote consistency of discovery of government resources. AGLS metadata, which is usually invisible to the end user, can be stored in HTML ‘metatags’, in XML, or in a metadata repository or directory that can be interrogated or harvested by external search engines. AGLS is now an official standard. AS 5044, AGLS Metadata Element Set, is the product of collaboration between the National Archives and Standards Australia. Based on an Australian Government standard, AS 5044 AGLS will enable web resources to be described consistently across all government, private and community sectors.

The Australian metadata standard (AS 5044.1) for the discovery and retrieval of government information online. Formerly known as Australian Government Locator Service. See also Metadata and Recordkeeping metadata.