Hi Linda,
As Andy says, Collections Trust is engaged with the RDTF both on the
Management Framework Taskforce, led by MIMAS, and the RDTF
infrastructure project, led by The Fitzwilliam Museum; and Culture Grid
is a service very much aligned to the RDTF Vision.
The sectors views on Andy & Pete's paper will help advise on the
direction that practical implementations (e.g. re Culture Grid) could
take in the future, so I'd encourage everyone to take a look and have a
say.
Phill
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Linda,
Two answers... both partial.
At a policy level, Collections Trust are involved in steering the RDTF
activity. They are also a partner in one of the projects funded under
this activity - a project working to enhance Culture Grid. It is called
Contextual Wrappers and an overview is here: http://bit.ly/ecs2De. I
would hope such enhancement would be in line with any guidelines that
emerge from our current metadata work - though as we say on the front
page of the JISCPress site, the way JISC and RLUK choose to roll out
these guidelines (if at all) is outside of our scope. I don't know, for
example, if there will be any attempt to enforce compliance by funded
projects.
At a practical level... the current submission guidelines for Culture
Grid (http://bit.ly/hNWund) are in line with the 'Use community formats
approach' outlined in our draft.
One of the things we have explicitly asked for advice on via the
comments is the extent to which close alignment with the Europeana Data
Model (EDM), i.e. the proposed use of RDF within Europeana, is important
for people.
Andy
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Linda Ellis
Sent: 04 February 2011 11:19
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Subject: Re: Resource Discovery Taskforce (RDTF) metadata guidelines -
comments wanted
Does anyone know how this fits in with Culture Grid?
Linda
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Andy Powell
Sent: 04 February 2011 10:45
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Subject: Resource Discovery Taskforce (RDTF) metadata guidelines -
comments wanted
The JISC and RLUK Resource Discovery Taskforce (RDTF) was formed to
focus on defining the requirements for the provision of a shared UK
resource discovery infrastructure to support research and learning, to
which libraries, archives, museums and other resource providers can
contribute open metadata for access and reuse. The Taskforce has
produced a vision and an outline work plan for the period 2010-2012
which will establish the framework to enable institutions, other service
providers and developers to provide resource discovery and delivery
services to match the needs of end users.
See http://bit.ly/gRPKu4 for details.
As part of this work, Pete Johnston and I have been asked to develop a
set of metadata guidelines for use by libraries, museums and archives in
the context of the RDTF. Our draft metadata guidelines are now available
for comment and we would welcome your thoughts on any aspect of them.
The guidelines suggest using one (or more) of three approaches, referred
to as 1) the community formats approach, 2) the RDF data approach and 3)
the Linked Data approach.
See http://rdtfmetadata.jiscpress.org/ for details of how to comment,
using either the JISCPress system or by sending us email. The comment
period runs for two weeks. A printable version of the guidelines is
available at http://bit.ly/iamBxA.
For background information on some of the reasoning behind the
guidelines and some of the specific issues that we'd like people to
consider, see our eFoundations blog post at http://bit.ly/etm08H.
Best,
Andy
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