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************************************************ We regret any inconvenience caused by duplication. ************************************************ CIMI is pleased to announce the release of the Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core. The Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core addresses Dublin Core 1.0 as documented in RFC 2413 and is an important result if CIMI's Dublin Core Testbed, an on-going effort to explore the usability, simplicity, and technical feasibility of Dublin Core for museum information. Recommendations expressed in the Guide are based on the experiences of the Testbed participants and are designed to assist the reader with several tasks including: how the Dublin Core standard can be applied to museum information; mapping existing data elements sets to the Dublin Core element set; the creation of Dublin Core records via manual or automated tools; implementing institutional policies regarding information access and retrieval. It is intended to be used by information managers, content experts and anyone in the museum community involved with creating and disseminating museum information. In addition, the Guide will be used in a series of workshops designed for museum professionals. The first two of these workshops will take place this fall - see the ICHIM99 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ichim99.html and MCN99 http://www.mcn.edu/MCN99/ conference programs for further details - with the remainder running through Spring 2000. The Guide is available in PDF format from the CIMI web site: http://www.cimi.org =========================================================== Angela Spinazze Acting Executive Director CIMI (Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information) http://www.cimi.org c/o ATSPIN consulting 350 West Erie Street, Suite 250 Chicago, Illinois 60610 USA 312.944.6820 voice 312.944.6821 fax e-mail: [log in to unmask] ==========================================================