(I send the message the last week, but my computer told me, that you
didnīt get it - once again)
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Dear all,
Die Deutsche Bibliothek is very interested in a new working group
discussing Dublin Core and authorities. We think that it is important
to build a DC metadata set to describe persons, objects and concepts.
There is a lot of discussion about that topic in several projects and
initiatives (see: Indecs, IFLA-Study: Functional requirements for
bibliographic records) and there are comparable discussions in the
DC-lists, too.
Please sent your comments for a discussion to the list.
Greetings,
Berthold Weiss
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This is the agenda for the Dublin Core Working Group on Authorities at
DC 7:
Announcement:
Dublin Core Working Group on Authorities
The objectives of this Working Group are to discuss the advantages and
possibilities of a special Dublin Core metadata set for persons, to
settle a draft for a standard set and to prepare a proposal for
application conventions. The background of this intention is the view
on persons and organisations not only to have the creator role in
documents but to be involved in other considerable roles, too, both
concerning documents and other objects. In this view persons should be
represented as separate objects with distinct relations to documents
and other objects. Both the librarian data model of the Functional
Requirements for Bibliographic Records and the metadata model of the
INDECs project are based on this view. We think there is good reason
for it as the identification and authentification of persons and
corporate bodies gain more and more importance in our networked
environment, not only for the management of rights. Though there is a
lot of discussion in the Dublin Core community and in various other
initiatives and projects a metadata description of persons as objects
of the real world is still lacking and should be developed. This could
contribute to provide interoperability between the libraries'
authority files and the personal metadata created and needed by
authors, publishers, rights managers etc.. If you are part of a
project dealing with persons or if you are interested in the
description of persons, corporate bodies and objects you should join
this working group in the working group meeting at the DC 7 workshop.
The agenda for the working group on persons and authorities:
1. Overview of projects and initiatives
2. Discussion of problems and difficulties Drafting of necessary
attributes for persons (and corporate bodies)
3. Drafting of Relations to other documents and objects
4. First draft of a Dublin Core metadata set
5. Presentation and discussion in the plenary session
6. Setting up an agenda for outstanding problems and the further work
(further discussion on a new discussion list?)
This working group surely has a strong connection to other Dublin Core
working groups, especially to the data model group, the schema group
and the DC-agents group.
Questions and comments to:
Christel Hengel ([log in to unmask])
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Berthold Weiss, M.A.
Die Deutsche Bibliothek
Adickesallee 1, D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: +49 69 / 1525-1404, Fax: +49 69 / 1525-1444
E-mail: [log in to unmask], URL: http://www.ddb.de
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