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We regret any inconvenience caused by duplication.
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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
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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
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