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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
December 22, 1997
NINCH Initiates Book Distribution Service
With US Distribution of AHDS Publication
NINCH is acting as the U.S. distributor of the recent publication of the
British Art & Humanities Data Service, "Discovering Online Resources Across
the Humanities." This is the first arrangement in an experimental
relationship in publications distribution between the two organizations.
We invite all interested U.S. readers to take advantage of this
arrangement.
David Green
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"DISCOVERING ONLINE RESOURCES ACROSS THE HUMANITIES:
A PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUBLIN CORE".
Edited by P Miller and D Greenstein on behalf of
AHDS and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN).
"Discovering Online Resources" provides a practical and accessible
introduction to the importance and use of Dublin Core "metadata" for the
purposes of describing and discovering humanities information resources
online.
Resulting from an extensively consultative study funded by the UK's Joint
Information Systems Committee and involving hundreds of information
specialists and humanities scholars, this volume will be essential to
anyone interested in cataloguing, finding, or integrating access to
distributed online information resources. The work comprises six chapters
and an extensive "bibliography" providing pointers to those who require
further information about metadata, the Dublin Core, cataloguing standards
currently in use in the humanities, and the Z39.50 network application
protocol.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
"Crossing the Great Divide: Integrating Access to the Scholarly Record"
-Daniel Greenstein (Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive) and
--Lorcan Dempsey (UK Office for Library and Information Networking)
Chapter 1
"The Dublin Core: A Simple Content Description Model for Electronic
Resources"
- Stuart Weibel (OCLC Office of Research)
Chapter 2
"Reports From the Front: Domain-Specific Perspectives on Cross-Domain
Discovery"
Chapter 3
"Unifying Resource Discovery Metadata for the Humanities: An
Implementation
Based Upon the Dublin Core"
Paul Miller (Archaeology Data Service)
Chapter 4
"Metadata and Middleware: A Systems Architecture for Cross-Domain
Discovery"
-Daniel Greenstein (Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive) and
-Robin Murray (Fretwell-Downing Informatics)
Chapter 5
"In at the Shallow End: Metadata and Cross-Domain Resource Discovery"
- Lorcan Dempsey, Rosemary Russell, and Rachel Heery (UK Office for Library
and Information Networking)
Conclusion
"Engendering Consensus"
- Paul Miller (Archaeology Data Service)
Appendix
"Sample Records Utilizing the Dublin Core"
- Compiled by Paul Miller (Archaeology Data Service)
"References and Further Reading"
-Compiled by Daniel Greenstein (Arts and Humanities Data Service
Executive) and Paul Miller (Archaeology Data Service)
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Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities: A Practical
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