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?