Dear Listserv members,
We are re-posting the following invitation and ask that you fill out the survey by February 15, 2011 if you are interested and able, but did not do so the first time in December.
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Librarians at Western Michigan University are developing a Dublin Core application profile which will provide a simple template for describing pre-modern manuscripts. This simple profile uses Dublin Core, which works with a variety of software systems (for example, CONTENTdm), and the profile was developed to allow the creation of standardized, shareable metadata and Web-accessible digital images. The perceived audience for this project includes librarians who are not specialists of pre-modern materials, small institutions and medieval scholars without metadata experience. We invite your participation in a survey of the current version of this profile at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PR5CL6N .
This profile was developed to fill a need tied to our participation in the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, which brings over 3,000 medieval scholars to Western Michigan University annually. WMU Libraries and its digitization program have participated in workshops for the Congress which highlighted the problems of small institutions (holding only one or two items) and individual scholars who wish to provide metadata for digitized manuscripts, but do not have the right combination of technical and subject skills.
Thank you
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Susan Steuer, Ph.D.
Special Collections and Rare Books
3017 Waldo Library
Western Michigan University Libraries
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5353
Sheila Bair
Metadata & Cataloging Librarian
0178 Waldo Library
Western Michigan University Libraries
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5353
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