Wei Liu:
Some of the decision-making on an issue of this kind depends on your
context: how many letters, what other materials you have to deal with, who
you will be exchanging your data with, what resources you have,
etc. There's probably not "one" good answer to this question.
In many libraries, letters may not be described individually, but as part
of a collection of materials about a person or organization. Some of those
libraries use the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) http://www.loc.gov/ead/
If you intend to treat them all as individual items, you'll need to
consider at what level of detail you'll want to describe the
letters. Dublin Core might do for a reasonably simple option for discovery
purposes. If you're planning on making available transcribed versions, you
might look into the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard
http://www.tei-c.org/
Diane Hillmann
Editor, "Using Dublin Core"
At 07:10 PM 6/21/2003 +0800, lw wrote:
>Hi,
>
>we are working on a project dealing with a large number of letters (ordinary
>mail) by historical celebrity. I wonder if there is any metadata
>standard/schema/profile containing adequate elements can be reference. Any
>links or advices are welcome. Thanks in advance.
>
>Wei Liu
>Shanghai Library
>China
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