Of interest to people on this list:
"Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities: A Practical
Implementation of the Dublin Core". Edited by P Miller and D Greenstein on
behalf of the AHDS and the UK Office for Library and Information
Networking, "Discovering Online Resources" provides a practical and
accessible introduction to the importance and use of Dublin Core
"metadata" for the purposes of describing and discovering humanities
information resources online. Resulting from an extensively
consultative study funded by the UK's Joint Information Systems
Committee and involving hundreds of information specialists,
and humanities scholars, the work will be relevant to anyone interested
in cataloguing, finding, or integrating access to distributed online
information resources. The work comprises six chapters and an extensive
"bibliography" providing pointers to those who require further information
about metadata, the Dublin Core, cataloguing standards currently in use
in the humanities, and the Z39.50 network application protocol.
"Discovering Online Resources" is available from the AHDS's web site at
http://ahds.ac.uk/public/metadata/discovery.html
A printed copy, (96pp, A4 size) is also available from the AHDS.
Information about how to order your copy is also available from the Web
site listed above.
Lorcan Dempsey <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/~lisld/>
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