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At 12:59 +0100 19/10/07, Sarah Currier wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am looking at developing an application profile (or perhaps it's
>really a cludge of application profile "modules") to support the
>Copyright Licensing Authority's reporting requirements for scanned
>extracts of works (e.g. journal articles, book chapters).
>
>This will need three kinds of metadata:
>- metadata describing the extracted work (e.g.,
>- metadata describing the course it will be used on, and
>- metadata describing the work that it was extracted from.
>
>The first and third of these are OK to deal with - am looking at the
>DC Libraries AP and the DC Scholarly Works AP among other things
>(although I wouldn't mind finding a spec that individually describes
>elements of a bibliographic citation, e.g. "pages from", "pages to",
>etc).
>
>The metadata about the course: well, I've been looking at the JISC
>XCRI spec, which is a really thorough, fantastic piece of work.
>It's also very complex and doesn't seem to have much human readable
>documentation. Wondered who I could speak to, or where I might find
>more information on this? At the moment it seems to encompass most,
>but not all of the course properties I need to describe. For
>instance, I want to describe the no. of students enrolled on a
>course (not the number of places available) and name the lecturers
>delivering the course. I'm also not clear how to describe the
>module identifier and module name- I found some examples among the
>case studies but they seemed to do things differently.
>
>Don't really need this answered on list as it's slightly outwith the
>remit of CETIS-Metadata, so am just hoping to make contact with
>someone or someones who have experience with XCRI or similar specs,
>or to be pointed to some other resources.
>
>Many thanks
>Sarah
>
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