Folks,
I've been engaged in making some DC examples, from a "minimalist"
standpoint (this is perhaps just a more PC term for "joe-six-pack?"). The
idea here is that these records are for the most part unqualified,
unschemed, unadorned. Now, I've been a cataloger of some kind for a long
time, so I can't quite claim that a lobotomy has taken place and I'm REALLY
approaching this from scratch, but I did really try to keep cataloger
obsession out of it.
The first two examples are websites, both of which I manage, so it was
convenient for me to use them as examples (since I could also add the
metadata to the actual page, as they're mine to mess with, and so I did!).
<meta name = "DC.title"
content = "Cornell University Library Technical Services Manual">
<meta name = "DC.creator"
content = "Hillmann, Diane I.">
<meta name = "DC.subject"
content = "(scheme=LCSH) NOTIS (Information retrieval system)">
<meta name = "DC.subject"
content = "(scheme=LCSH) Cataloging">
<meta name = "DC.subject"
content = "(scheme=LCSH) Acquisitions (Libraries)">
<meta name = "DC.description"
content = "A manual of practice and procedures developed for the
technical services processing centers at Cornell University Library.
Includes links to USMARC coding, locations, and a variety of
cataloging,
authority, and acquisitions resources.">
<meta name = "DC.publisher"
content = "Cornell University Library. Technical Services Support
Unit">
<meta name = "DC.date"
content = "1995">
<meta name = "DC.type"
content = "home page">
<meta name = "DC.type"
content = "manual">
<meta name = "DC.format"
content = "text/html">
<meta name = "DC.itentifier"
content = "(scheme=URL) http://www.library.cornell.edu/tsmanual/">
<meta name = "DC.title"
content = "New York State Citizens' Coalition for Children home page">
<meta name = "DC.creator"
content = "Ashton, Judith">
<meta name = "DC.subject"
content = "children">
<meta name = "DC.subject"
content = "foster care">
<meta name = "DC.subject"
content = "adoption">
<meta name = "DC.description"
content = "A compendium of information on the work of the NYSCCC,
including position papers, legislative materials, articles and
specific
information on foster care subsidy rates for the State of New York.">
<meta name = "DC.publisher"
content = "New York State Citizens' Coalition for Children">
<meta name = "DC.contributors"
content = "Hillmann, Diane I.">
<meta name = "DC.date"
content = "1996">
<meta name = "DC.type"
content = "home page">
<meta name = "DC.format"
content = "text/html">
<meta name = "DC.identifier"
content = "(scheme=URL) http://www.nysccc.org/">
The third example is a single article from the second website:
<meta name = "DC.title"
content = "Maintaining commitment when a child can't live at home">
<meta name = "DC.creator"
content = "Hillmann, Diane I.">
<meta name = "DC.subject"
content = "residential treatment">
<meta name = "DC.subject"
content = "adopted children">
<meta name = "DC.subject"
content = "teenagers">
<meta name = "DC.description"
content = "An article describing ways families and maintain
connections to their children who cannot or refuse to live at home.">
<meta name = "DC.publisher"
content = "Adoptive Families Association of Tompkins County">
<meta name = "DC.date"
content = "1996">
<meta name = "DC.date.original"
content = "1994">
<meta name = "DC.type"
content = "article">
<meta name = "DC.format"
content = "text/html">
<meta name = "DC.identifier"
content = "(scheme=URL)
http://www.nysccc.org/articles/maintcommit.html">
<meta name = "DC.source"
content = "Newsletter of the Adoptive Families Association of Tompkins
County, fall 1994">
The last example is for the photograph of the DC4 attendees currently on
the Web:
<meta name = "DC.title"
content = "Picture of the attendees at the recent conference on
Metadata
in Australia">
<meta name = "DC.subject"
content = "(scheme=LCSH) Metadata">
<meta name = "DC.description"
content = "Photograph of the attendees at the 4th Dublin Core Metadata
Workshop, Canberra, Australia, March 3-5, 1997. Photo was taken on
the
front steps on the National Library of Australia on March 3, 1997.">
<meta name = "DC.publisher"
content = "University Library, University of Abertay Dundee, and
UKOLN">
<meta name = "DC.date"
content = "1997">
<meta name = "DC.type"
content = "image">
<meta name = "DC.format"
content = "gif">
<meta name = "DC.identifier"
content = "(scheme=URL)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ariadne/issue8/caption/">
<meta name = "DC.relation"
content = "Ariadne (Web version), issue 8">
In the case of the last two items, one was previously published in print,
and is now available on the web, the other is embedded in a site for
another publication. This nicely allowed me to use both the source and
relation elements, in a way I think makes sense. In the case of the
article, since there was an original and a print, I chose to use two dates,
one unqualified for the date the item became available in its present form,
the other qualified for the original date of publication. I'd welcome
comments on these. As I can, I'll probably post some more examples.
I figured these would be a nice change from the discussion on registries
... ;-)
Diane
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Diane I. Hillmann
Head, Technical Services Support Unit
Cornell University Library E-mail: [log in to unmask]
107B Olin Library Voice: (607) 254-5290
Ithaca, New York 14853 Fax: (607) 255-6110
WebGoddess: http://www.library.cornell.edu/tsmanual
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