Alan, DC-ers,
Those of you interested in a Medical/Health DC IG may be interested in a
simlar call made to CORC participants for a health sciences SIG. CORC, as
you probably know, is a cooperative cataloging project which supports both
MARC and Dublin Core. I've copied a note related to the CORC SIG below.
Please note that the CORC list is open only to libraries participating in
CORC. HOwever I thought it might be useful if these two SIGs knew of each
other.
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 16:10:44 -0500
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At the CORC Participants' meeting earlier this month, some "health sciences"
users met to discuss mutual concerns and ways in which they could cooperate.
While only a few users were available for the meeting, they made several
useful personal contacts during the course of the meeting. The group
discussed a range of topics, including standards, subject pages being
planned, and mutual concerns of health science users. The group plans to
continue to work together.
OCLC would like to encourage other like-minded participants to begin setting
up working groups, either formally or informally, to discuss topics of
mutual interest and to define ways in which they can cooperate with each
other. Some suggestions might be to divide up a broad subject area into
many smaller ones with various participants taking responsibility for one of
them. Other groups might be more interested in setting up groups to discuss
particular functional aspects of CORC such as Pathfinders, common usage and
standards for Dublin Core, interface with a particular local system, etc.
These are topics that might be useful to some participants but not all
participants. There are probably many others you could define.
Among the techniques that might be useful is to establish informal email
groups for communication among yourselves or to establish an electronic
mailing list (e.g., "listserv") that anyone interested can join.
OCLC invites you to make proposals and post them to the CORC-L list. While
OCLC will not be managing or setting up groups, we encourage you to do so
and to include OCLC CORC staff in your groups as resources.
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