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The Report relating to the workshop below is available at the following
URL:
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/Metadata1.html

The VADS thinks it essential to invite feedback from the visual arts,
museum and cultural heritage community on the contents of this report
and the recommendations arising from it.

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The Visual Arts Data Service, in partnership with the Art,
Design,Architecture & Media Information Gateway, the Museum
Documentation Association and the Scottish Cultural Resources Access
Network, held a workshop in March, to examine the descriptive
information needed to enable the discovery of visual arts, museums and
cultural heritage resources on the Internet, particularly in the form of
digital images.

The Workshop focussed on the usefulness of the Dublin Core metadata
element set:

*Deciding which resource discovery requirements were of 'core'
significance
*Mapping the core set, where possible, to the existing Dublin Core
elements
Indicating relevant specialist standards, terminology resources,
syntaxes etc.
*Considering the problems in a Dublin Core-like approach to the
remaining elements
*Considering issues related to introducing generic rather than
subject-specific terminologies


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**Catherine Grout**Visual Arts Data Service**
*Surrey Institute of  Art & Design**Farnham*
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