I'd like to chime in on my interests for a similar set of metadata for
one of my current projects, an on-line oral history database. And I'd
also like to thank the various people who've already pointed out similar
schemes. I've been using a combination of DC and my own metadata so
far, since I haven't come across anything that fulfills what I'm looking
for. Unless I've missed something very obvious (I tend to do that) I
thought it was rather interesting that most of these seem to miss some
very basic data like gender and ethnicity, which is important to what
I'm working on. (The NC-ECHO seems to be a notable exception, and
apologies to others that I might have missed.)
cheers,
Chris
Liddy Nevile wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have spent the last two days at a most inspiring workshop on
> encyclopaedias. The participants have built very impressive systems
> and content publications built on metadata. The group need some kind
> of thing that can act as authority files for their encyclopaedia and
> dictionaries of poeple/biographies... they want to be able to form
> reliable links between content sets that can rely on identification of
> people. They want to be able to classify thr authority of people in
> some cases and the interests of authors/users in others.
>
> See http://jod.id.au/anzdeg/index.php/Main_Page
>
> The group unanimously asked if, on their behalf, I would convey to the
> DC community that they thought that it would be good if the DC
> community could work on person descriptions, and that it would be a
> very popular move.
>
> I am interested to know if others feel the same way and would be
> interested in doing such work?
>
> Liddy
>
>
--
Christopher Kaplonski, PhD
<[log in to unmask]>
Project Manager,
The Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia
www.mongolianoralhistory.org
|