Multi-purpose%20metadata%20for%20collections:%20Creating%20reusable%20CLDs%20Collection%20Description%20Focus%20Workshop%202%20Aston%20Business%20School,%20Birmingham%208%20February%202002

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Multi-purpose metadata for collectionsCreating
reusable CLDsCollection Description Focus
Workshop 2 Aston Business School, Birmingham 8
February 2002

• Bridget Robinson Pete Johnston
• UKOLN, University of Bath
• Bath, BA2 7AY

Email cd-focus_at_ukoln.ac.uk URL http//www.ukoln.ac
.uk/
UKOLN is supported by
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Multi-purpose metadata for collections

• Collection Description Focus
• (Re-)using collection-level descriptions
• Challenges to reuse

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Collection Description Focus

• Funded by
• RSLP
• JISC/DNER
• British Library
• UKOLN experience of RSLP Collection Description
• Benefit from collaboration with
• Interoperability Focus
• DNER Architecture team
• CIMI (museums)
• Dublin Core Collection Description WG

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Collection Description Focus (2)

• Improve consistency, compatibility of approaches
• Point of contact, advice
• Gather information on existing practice
• survey questionnaire, implementer visits
• Consensus-building
• CD Forum
• Disseminate good practice
• workshops, briefing days
• publications
• recommendations, guidelines

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(Re-)using collection-level descriptions

• Collection-level description as an overview of
  aggregate of items
• CLD useful in many different contexts, for many
  purposes
• discovery of collections (Web sites, printed
  guides)
• comparison/selection of collections
• management of collections
• Risk of duplicating effort
• Advantages of re-purposing

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Challenges to reusability

• CLDs often created for specific purpose
• Context/purpose may condition
• which collections described
• how collection defined (granularity)
• which schema used for CLD
• how schema applied (application profile)
• which content standards (e.g. subject
  terminology) used
• emphasis of descriptive content

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Multi-purpose metadata

• Is reusability feasible?
• What is required for reuse?
• What good practice can facilitate reuse?
• Are there limitations to reuse?
• Who should reuse your CLDs?
• Are there ways in which you may wish to control
  reuse?

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Acknowledgements

• UKOLN is funded by Resource the Council for
  Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint
  Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK
  higher and further education funding councils, as
  well as by project funding from the JISC and the
  European Union. UKOLN also receives support from
  the University of Bath where it is based.
• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/

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Raising standards for collection
descriptionSubjects and strength in
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March 2002
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• Bridget Robinson Pete Johnston
• UKOLN, University of Bath
• Bath, BA2 7AY

Email cd-focus_at_ukoln.ac.uk URL http//www.ukoln.ac
.uk/
UKOLN is supported by