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Date: 6/10/97 6:04 PM
RE: Cross-domain use of metadata -- reports available for comment
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 10, 1997
REPORTS ON BRITISH WORKSHOPS ON CONDITIONS FOR EFFECTIVE
DISCOVERY/RETRIEVAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIAL
A particularly constructive component of the work of the British Arts &
Humanities Data Service (AHDS) <http://www.ahds.ac.uk/> is in its work to
construct a working model for the effective discovery and retrieval of
digital materials from across a broad range of arts and humanities
disciplines and practices.
The following notice from Paul Miller of the Archeology Data Service (one
of the service providers of AHDS) announces the release of preliminary
reports on the findings of a series of workshops held in the disciplines,
or "domains" of: Archaeology, History, electronic text, digital sound
resources, moving images and visual arts & cultural heritage.
Although this work is being conducted in a different, more highly
centralized environment than that in which we work in the U.S., this should
be of great interest to us all and I encourage your reading and commenting
on the reports of those "domains" that most interest you.
David Green
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From: Paul Miller <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Cross-domain use of metadata -- reports available for comment
In an effort to explore the issues behind creating a cross-domain
interdisciplinary service for the Arts & Humanities, the UK's Arts &
Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and Office of Library and Information
Networking (UKOLN) recently convened a series of workshops where
participants addressed:
- requirements for resource discovery within the discipline
- current resource description/discovery practices
- fitness of Dublin Core for resource discovery within the
discipline
In each domain-specific workshop, participants were drawn from within the
domain, and were asked to consider likely needs, both within a service for
the domain itself and for a domain-spanning service such as the AHDS,
where the issues are slightly different.
These workshops addressed the important subject of resource discovery, and
explored the issues behind use of metadata to describe electronic
resources in such a way that they might effectively be located and
retrieved within a cross-domain interdisciplinary environment such as that
of the AHDS.
Although focussed upon the Arts & Humanities, it is intended that the
workshop findings will have value more widely within the electronic
libraries sphere, where several projects are concerned with describing or
locating resources in an electronic environment.
DRAFT reports from each AHDS Service Provider are now available on
the web:
<http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/project/metadata/res_dev_wrkshp1.html>
(Archaeology)
<http://hds.essex.ac.uk/metadata/draft_report01.html> (History)
<http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/reports/metarep1.html> (electronic text)
<http://pads.ahds.ac.uk/mu_rep.html> (digital sound resources)
<http://pads.ahds.ac.uk/mi_rep.html> (moving image resources)
<http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/Metadata1.html> (visual arts and cultural heritage).
Each report is available in draft form until the end of July, at which
time comments will be incorporated into finalised versions of the reports.
AHDS would welcome comments from as wide a cross-section of the community
as possible in the time available, and invites you to look at those
reports of interest and submit comments to their authors.
Comments on the series as a whole should be addressed to me in the first
instance.
Thanks,
Paul
== paul miller ================== [log in to unmask] ==
collections manager, archaeology data service, king's manor
york, YO1 2EP, UK tel: +44 (0)1904 43 3954
== http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/ ==== fax: +44 (0)1904 43 3939 ==
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