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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 16:25:10 -0400 From: Sherman Clarke <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list VRA-L <[log in to unmask]> Subject: RLG Meta Access The Research Libraries Group sponsored a Meta Access Summit on the 1st of July. Since Elisa Lanzi (chair of the VRA Data Standards Committee) was unable to attend, and since I was in San Francisco for ALA, she asked me to represent the DSC. I have written a report which is posted at http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/9783 If you do not have easy access to the web and would like me to email it to you, please let me know. (Or I could even mail it to you in an envelope though I assume that you have email if you're reading this message). My ALA report will be posted when it is complete. The summit emphasized Dublin Core as the (a) lingua franca for metadata -- the common denominator (hopefully not so low as to be unhelpful). The biggest problem for visual resources is whether the metadata represents the original resource or its "webness" -- particularly the Date and Source categories. These are both prominent among the issues for the 5th DC workshop which is to take place in Helsinki in October 1997. Murtha Baca from the Getty was also a strong voice for relevant VR issues. If you have questions about the summit or my report, please ask. Sherman Clarke NYU Libraries [log in to unmask]