Dear colleague,

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Libraries Working Group [1]
kindly asks for your input on the questionnaire (below).

The PURPOSE of the questionnaire is to help achieve some of the objectives
of our 2001 work plan
[2], including:
*       To collect and share examples of Dublin Core use in libraries.
*       To stimulate discussion about a library-specific application profile
of Dublin Core.

This will also feed into the process of drafting a library-specific
application profile for the use of Dublin Core in libraries. A summary [3]
of the meeting held at the 8th Dublin Core workshop in Ottawa is available
at:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0010&L=dc-libraries&F=&S=&P=3
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CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPATION: Experience in using Dublin Core in a library
setting.
The questionnaire is NOT limited to members of this working group or
subscribers to Dublin Core mailing lists.
Please forward to other colleagues as appropriate.

PLEASE SEND COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES TO: [log in to unmask]

A SUMMARY of the responses will be posted to the DC-Libraries list [4], and
the DC-General List [5].
Or you may contact me directly for a summary.

DEADLINE for responses: March 1, 2001.

We sincerely thank you for your participation. If you have questions or
comments, please contact me, or Rebecca Guenther, chair of the DCMI
Libraries Working Group at [[log in to unmask]].

Best regards,

Carolyn Guinchard
Metadata Librarian, The Alberta Library
Mail:    4-30 Cameron Library
           University of Alberta
           Edmonton Alberta T6G 2J8
Phone: 780-492-4645
Fax:     780-492-9243
Email:  [log in to unmask]
www.thealbertalibrary.ab.ca


DUBLIN CORE IN LIBRARIES: QUESTIONNAIRE

1) Please briefly describe your library implementation of Dublin Core.
(For example, the type of resource being described, project purpose, and the
type and size of library where the project is based.) Please also elaborate
on WHY you decided to use Dublin Core.


2) URL(s) for the project and related documentation, such as user guides,
that you are willing to share with the library community.


3) Do you use Dublin Core simple (no qualifiers), qualified (as approved),
or some other combination?


4) Please use the following checklist to indicate which Dublin Core elements
and DC-approved qualifiers [6] you use.

NOTE: Please replace "o" with "x" for all that apply. Add comments if you
wish.

o       Title
o       Title.Alternative
o       Creator
o       Subject
o       Subject.LCSH
o       Subject.MeSH
o       Subject.DDC
o       Subject.LCC
o       Subject.UDC
o       Description
o       Description.TableOfContents
o       Description.Abstract
o       Publisher
o       Contributor
o       Date
o       Date.Created
o       Date.Valid
o       Date.Available
o       Date.Issued
o       Date.Modified
o       Date.DCMI Period
o       Date.W3C-DTF
o       Type
o       Type.DCMITypeVocabulary
o       Format
o       Format.Extent
o       Format.Medium
o       Format.Medium.IMT
o       Identifier
o       Identifier.URI
o       Source
o       Source.URI
o       Language
o       Language.ISO 639-2
o       Language.RFC 1766
o       Relation
o       Relation.IsVersionOf
o       Relation.HasVersion
o       Relation.Replaces
o       Relation.IsRequiredBy
o       Relation.Requires
o       Relation.IsPartOf
o       Relation.HasPart
o       Relation.IsReferencedBy
o       Relation.References
o       Relation.IsFormatOf
o       Relation.HasFormat
o       Relation.URI
o       Coverage
o       Coverage.Spatial
o       Coverage.Spatial.DCMI Point
o       Coverage.Spatial.ISO 3166
o       Coverage.Spatial.DCMI Box
o       Coverage.Spatial.TGN
o       Coverage.Temporal
o       Coverage.Temporal.DCMI Period
o       Coverage.Temporal.W3C-DTF
o       Rights

5) Please list any additional elements and qualifiers that you use. Add
comments if you wish.

6) Please list any metadata schemas or formats in use in your library in
addition to
Dublin Core and MARC. (Note: In this questionnaire, consider a MARC format a
type of metadata schema.)

7) How is your Dublin Core metadata encoded? (For example, HTML, XHTML, XML,
RDF, MARC tags.)

8) How are you storing your Dublin Core metadata? (For example, embedding it
in the resource, storing it separately in a database, etc.)

9) Do you convert records from one metadata schema to Dublin Core or vice
versa?

10) Please list the tools or software in use in your Dublin Core metadata
implementation. (For example, databases, search engines, harvesters,
metadata editors or generators, HTML editors, etc)

11) How does your Dublin Core metadata interoperate with other metadata in
your
library?

12) What challenges did you encounter in your implementation of Dublin Core,
and how did you solve them?

13) What are your recommendations for a LIBRARY-SPECIFIC application profile
for the use of Dublin Core
in libraries? (For example, additional elements or qualifiers, mandatory use
of certain
elements, etc.)

14) Please add any other comments on your experience using Dublin Core in
library settings.


Thank you for your participation!


References:

[1] Dublin Core Libraries Working Group:
http://purl.org/DC/groups/libraries.htm

[2] DCMI Libraries Working Group Meeting Slides
http://purl.org/DC/workshops/dc8conference/library/index.htm

[3] Summary of the DC-Libraries Working Group Meeting held at the 8th Dublin
Core workshop in Ottawa:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0010&L=dc-libraries&F=&S=&P=3
84

[4] DC-Libraries Working Group Mailing List:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-libraries.html

[5] DC-General Mailing List:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-general.html

[6] Dublin Core Qualifiers:
http://purl.org/dc/documents/rec/dcmes-qualifiers-20000711.htm



Carolyn Guinchard
Metadata Librarian, The Alberta Library
Mail:    4-30 Cameron Library
           University of Alberta
           Edmonton Alberta T6G 2J8
Phone: 780-492-4645
Fax:     780-492-9243
Email:  [log in to unmask]
www.thealbertalibrary.ab.ca