Gary,
The pages at OCLC and the messages are a good place to start.
AMIGOS had a training session about a year ago. It was great to get
together with others at lunch and before and after, and argue and agree
on what should be done and how and why. The presentation did not give
me any new information, but it was good to know I was on the right
track. it was well worth the cost and time. I hope they present it
again. If so take advantage of it.
I think AMIGOS is going to do the OCLC Institute Seminar on Metadata
this Spring. I would love to get to that, but it comes at a very bad
time for me at work. That looks very good and I think many of the
creators of DC are going to be there.
DC is like cataloging, if you are not a cataloger talk to those people,
brush up on MARC, AACR2, LCSH, LCC and so on. There is a great deal of
transfer of knowledge, though DC is much simpler and does not require
knowledge of any of those topics.
I think I may be the smallest institution doing DC. I'm also systems,
cataloging and do reference part time.
Sincerely,
David Bigwood
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Lunar and Planetary Institute
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>From: Gary E. Masters[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 4:55 PM
>To: 'DC'
>Subject: Where to start?
>
>Have started learning Dublin Core for planned use to organize image files.
>Any suggestions for what one shoud start with?
>Am working on the OCLC web page and will read these messages.
>
>thanks,
>
>
>Gary Masters
>Gary E. Masters
>Automated Services Librarian
>Texas A&M International University
>(956) 326-2137 (voice)
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