Hello,
(Cross posted to the metadatalibrarians list -- sorry for the redundancy)
I am part of a group who is developing an application profile for a set
of Canadian Institutional Repositories. We are currently aggregating our
OAI-PMH metadata in a search interface
(http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/) implemented using the PKP Metadata
Harvester (http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-harvester/). In our application
profile, we have decided to 1) use only unqualified Dublin Core elements
and 2) concentrate on selecting and/or developing controlled
vocabularies and implementation guidelines for populating the uDC
elements. We have chosen to stay with uDC elements in order to provide a
low barrier to implementation at our partner sites. The goal of this
application profile is basically to improve end-user searching of the
aggregated metadata. If you are interested in seeing some background
information on our activity,
http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/obj/014005/f2/014005-05209-j1-e.pdf provides
some examples of the metadata as it stood almost a year ago (I have an
article coming out in Library Hi Tech shortly that contains a fuller
analysis).
I would like to ask members of this list if you have taken a similar
approach to developing uDC-based profiles and if so, whether you would
you mind sharing your profile documentation. We would like reinvent as
few wheels as possible.
Thank you,
Mark
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Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023
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