Hi Ann,
I plan to be doing more work on collection level description. I work for
Collections Australia Network and see CLD as a useful means of helping
collecting organisations in Australia to formalise the description of their
collections (currently less formally described in the CAN Partner profile).
Also, in Australia there is a project "Register My Data" being undertaken
by the Australian National Data
Service: http://ands.org.au/services/register-my-data.html that works with
collection level description. There is also a new standard for describing
the significance of collections, at both item and collection level, put out
by the Collections Council of Australia:
http://significance.collectionscouncil.com.au/
So...perhaps it is a matter of people interested but not quite so active?
I'm interested in the published work recently put out on dLib but haven't
had a chance to absorb it:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july09/papatheodorou/07papatheodorou.html if
anyone on this list has any insights to offer, I'd welcome hearing them.
Good wishes, Ingrid
Ingrid Mason
National Project Manager
Collections Australia Network
w. http://www.collectionsaustralia.net
b. http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/publisher/outreach/
m. P O Box K346, Haymarket, NSW 1238, Australia e.
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p. +61-9217 0347
f. +61-9217 0689
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From: DCMI Collection Description Community
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ann Apps
Sent: Friday, 4 September 2009 4:44 AM
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Subject: Collections Community
Hi All,
This email forum for the Collections Community has very little traffic.
So I'm wondering if there really is a community of people working with
collection-level description who would find such a forum useful. Or is the
Collections community really a part of the libraries and/or museums and/or
archives communities?
I'd be interested to hear opinions on this. (And to read them when I return
from holiday in a couple of weeks or so.)
Thanks,
Ann
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