FW: [XMLWG] tentative core metadata set for libraries

["MACIAS, Paul" <PMACIAS@lmi.org>]

FYI

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Subject: [XMLWG] tentative core metadata set for libraries


Forwarded from DIGLIB. I thought it may be of interest to the group.

Invitation to Participate:

World-Wide Review of "Guidance on the Structure, Content, and
Application of Metadata Records  for Digital Resources and
Collections"

In response to a growing international interest in, and application
of, metadata schemas, the IFLA Cataloguing Section Working Group on
the Use of Metadata Schemas was established at the IFLA 1998
Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The Working Group drafted its terms of reference agreeing to focus on
outcomes deriving from the following three objectives:

Objective 1: to create an inventory of the development and
implementation/application of metadata schemas in different countries

Objective 2: to provide guidance (and ultimately, as appropriate,
guidelines) to libraries as to when and/or how best to use metadata
records and bibliographic records (catalogue records)

Objective 3: to determine a metadata "core record" - i.e., a set of
most commonly occurring elements in selected metadata schemas - that
could be used by authors and/or publishers of electronic records to
enhance resource discovery, and to provide, where appropriate,
elements for incorporation into bibliographic records (catalogue
records)

In fulfilling its terms of reference, the Working Group held five
sets of formal meetings, beginning in Bangkok, Thailand at the IFLA
1999 Conference, and continuing to the IFLA 2003 Conference in
Berlin, Germany. The Working Group invited input - and, in some
cases, representation - from the IFLA Information Technology,
Classification and Indexing, Bibliography, and Libraries for the
Blind, Sections, respectively, as well as from the Permanent UNIMARC
Committee (PUC) and the DCMI Libraries Working Group.

Having completed a draft of its final report, the Working Group is
posting the document to the IFLA website for World-Wide Review.  In
addition to seeking comment from colleagues in libraries and other
constituents within the bibliographic community, generally, we
particularly welcome input from those associated with the archival
and museums communities, the publishing community, National Libraries
- specifically regarding possible application in concert with legal
deposit - other groups with an interest in metadata interoperability
- e.g., those overseeing specific metadata schemas - and those
organizations or associations currently building and/or maintaining
metadata-enabled subject gateways.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/guide/metaguide03.pdf

Please send comments to me, as indicated below, on or before February
16, 2004 , upon which date the review period will be completed.  The
Working Group will consider your comments and suggestions in further
revisions to this document.  A final version will be presented to the
IFLA Cataloguing Section for a vote. The Working Group anticipates
completing its charge entirely by the IFLA 2004 conference in Buenos
Aires, Argentina.

Thank-you for participating in the world-wide review process, and for
sending responses to the following:
Prof. Lynne C. Howarth Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto
140 St. George Street
Toronto, ON
M5S 3G6,  CANADA

Tel. +(1)(416)9784666  (secure voicemail)
Fax. +(1)(416)9711399
E-mail: howarth@fis.utoronto.ca

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