Metadata is one of the six key technologies of Digital Earth,which is also an important aspect in buildingand implementing the Digital City. Based on the technologies and standards of Web Services ,the author came up witha metadata services architecture in the distributed heterogeneous network environment of Digital City. In this paper,the metadata services architecture is described and explained in detail,including the related standards,technologies,that,based on the Web service,to build the metadata service architecture will be practically meaningful for organizing,managing and sharing the information resources in Digital City.
