Colleagues
Please note this forthcoming event, of interest to cataloguers and metadata
practitioners working with digital resources and institutional repositories.
Title: Metadata issues for Scottish institutional repositories
Date: Monday 4 Dec 2006
Time: 14.00-16.30
Venue: Conference Room, National Library of Scotland, Causewayside Building,
Edinburgh.
Organisers: CIGS, CDLR, NLS.
Registration: Email [log in to unmask] with your name and institution.
More information about the event and venue:
http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=474
Programme:
1. Presentation of results of harvesting metadata from Scottish institutional
repositories during the HaIRST and IRIScotland projects / Alan Dawson.
This will include a demo of the pilot search/browse service for IRIScotland.
2. Presentation on the DC ePrints application profile initiative and its
potential use in Scotland / Gordon Dunsire.
3. General discussion and plenary.
Aim:
1. To inform the IRIScotland Work Package 5 deliverable of a metadata agreement.
2. To inform the IRIS Work Package 4 deliverable of a pilot integrated hosted
repository service.
3. To inform the IRIS Work Package 5 deliverable of a pilot search/browse service.
4. To inform the Scottish and wider cataloguing/metadata community of issues
arising from the development of institutional repositories in general, and
progress on related issues in IRIS.
5. To inform the National Library of Scotland of issues in relation to the
Trusted Digital Repository initiative and the mixed metadata schema environment
of the John Murray Archive and other developments.
Background:
The Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland (CIGS) has collaborated with the
Centre for Digital Library Research (CDLR) on similar exercises in the past.
CIGS co-ordinated and chaired a series of meetings of SCURL cataloguers to
discuss local practice and its potential effect on Z39.50-mediated distributed
union catalogues, as part of the CAIRNS project. The discussions at the meetings
were used to draw up a checklist of short- and long-term changes to local
practice which would improve interoperability in the CAIRNS service. The
checklist was approved by the Scottish Confederation of University and Research
Libraries (SCURL), and was effectively a metadata agreement. This subsequently
formed the basis of a work package in the cc-interop project which investigated
the development of a similar agreement on a UK-wide basis. CIGS hosted a seminar
for Scottish cataloguers, and liaised with a parallel seminar for England and
Wales. The outcome was a report saying that the original CAIRNS agreement,
although a suitable starting-point, could not be extended without the support of
a high-level UK agency to co-ordinate metadata schema, formats and content
guidelines.
The current CDLR approach to delivering a metadata agreement for Scottish
institutional repositories is similar: identify issues directly from examination
of the content of aggregated metadata; expose those issues to a wide
professioinal audience for feedback and identification of additional background
issues; develop an initial proposal for discussion by SCURL cataloguers; develop
a draft final proposal for consideration by SCURL itself. The deliverable is
scheduled for March 2007.
Audience:
1. Cataloguing/metadata practitioners in Scottish universities and colleges.
2. Cataloguing/metadata practitioners and managers in the NLS (including those
working on the John Murray Archive and the Trusted Digital Repository).
2. CIGS members.
3. Anyone else who is interested in metadata standards and workflows applied to
institutional repositories and self-archiving services. You do not have to be a
member of CILIP/CILIPS or CIG/CIGS to attend.
Preparation in advance of the meeting:
There are several public documents on the IRIS project wiki at:
iriscotland.nls.uk/wiki/index.php/
These give the background to the metadata issues, and attendees may find it
useful to read them in advance.
Registration fee: Free. Please register in advance to avoid any problems with
security and refreshments.
Light refreshments will be provided at 13.45.
Cheers.
Gordon
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