Meta2 Folk,
One of the goals of the Helsinki meeting is to share implementation
experiences from early deployment projects. We have
asked attendees that have deployment projects to submit project
summaries for possible presentation at the meeting. I would
like others who cannot attend to also consider doing so.
The attached questionaire (developed by Traugott Koch, of the Nordic
Metadata Project) is intended to elicit a common foundation of summary
information. Please use it to develop your project summaries and
submit them to me for linkage to the dublin core homepage and the
Helsinki conference.
HTML is preferred.
regards,
stu
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Dublin Core Project Summary Questionaire v 1.0 970911
A. Project Description:
Project Name:
Institutional Affiliation:
Contact Person (persons) and email:
URL(s) if publically available:
B. Information System Summary:
1. Domain of Content
2. Projected Collection Size (number of records)
First year:
Third year:
3. Type of data, formats
C. Metadata:
1. What are the intended functions of the metadata used?
__ Management of the collection
__ Enhanced searchability
__ Interoperability
__ Value-added services
__ Other: ____________________________________________
2. Who is creating the metadata? What training and support
are provided?
3. Which metadata scheme is used?
4. Encoding strategy:
__ external database
__ auxiliary HTML files (not embedded in resource)
__ metadata embedded in resource
5. Granularity of the description:
__ individual documents
__ groups of documents
__ collections
6. Dublin Core strengths and weaknesses encountered in deployment
7. Which DC fields are used/not used?
8. Have additional local fields been added?
9. Which qualifiers are used/needed?, at what level of detail?
10. Do you provide any subject description support
(uncontrolled term lists, thesauri, classification systems)?
D. Tools (provide URLs if freely available):
1. Conversion tools (eg., MARC -> DC)
2. Metadata creator tools
3. Automatic metadata extraction tools
4. Discovery tools (directory/browsing type)
5. Indexing and search tools
6. Other tools
7. Help system, tutorials etc.
8. Is the metadata indexed, browsable, searchable, through a local
or external service?
E. Experiences from the planning and production phases:
1. Describe problems and accomplishments from both phases
2. Do you estimates of the costs and benefits for the creation or use
of metadata?
3. What measures (or expectations) of service improvement through
metadata usage do you have?
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