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Re: Dublin Core



Dear Colleague,

The _OCLC Systems & Services_ journal publishes a special column entitled
_On the Dublin Core Front_.  This column provides information on how to
use Dublin Core, recent Dublin Core development, impacts to traditional
cataloging practices, and the use of this standard for facilitating Web
resource
discovery.  The column is hosted by Norm Medeiros, a Technical Service
Librarian at New York University Medical Center's Frederick L.
Ehman Medical Library.  Norm will soon be a coordinator of Bibliographic
and Digital Services at Haverford College.  Three columns have been
published so far:

"On the Dublin Core Front," OCLC Systems & Services, vol.16, no.1, pp:41-42.
"Metadata: semantics plus structure plus syntax," OCLC Systems & Services,
       vol. 16, no.2, pp:54-56.
"Liberating online catalog records," OCLC Systems & Services, vol.16, no.3,
       pp:100-101.

 Hope you find this column very useful.

Sheau-Hwang Chang
Editor of OCLC S&S


-----Original Message-----
From: McCrea, Donna [mailto:dmccrea@MAIL.PPLD.ORG]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 5:48 PM
To: SCHANG@mailhost.bridgew.edu
Subject: Dublin Core


Listmembers:

The catalog librarian where I work is very interested in using Dublin Core
to catalog some of our archival materials.  We currently use MARC for our
books and are looking at LC for our maps.  Other than a few short readings
on the very basics of "what is Dublin Core", I don't know much about it.  I
have heard that D.C. works well for cataloging individual photographs, but I
certainly don't know anything about how archival collections could be
cataloged using Dublin Core.

Could anyone recommend readings, websites, etc. that I could look at to get
more information about D.C and especially about using it for archival
materials?  If anyone is currently using D.C., do you have a website where
your collection records are available for viewing so I can get a sense of
how they are different from MARC or EAD records.  I welcome any and all
comments, suggestions, criticisms that you are willing to share.

Thank you.

Donna E. McCrea
Local History Archivist & Librarian
Pikes Peak Library District
Colorado Springs, Colorado
(719) 531-6333 x1217
dmccrea@mail.ppld.org

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