[ESP] FW: Collection Description Forum

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:59:24 -0000

Hello all, 
the mail below might be of interest for us.
Best wishes,
Kerstin

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                  Kerstin Kleese - van Dam                               
               CLRC -  Daresbury Laboratory                           

Group Leader of the Data Management Group of the 
                   CLRC e-Science Centre      

            Direct Line: ++44 (0) 1925 603832       
                 Mobile: ++44 (0) 7734408205          
                   Email: k.kleese@dl.ac.uk

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bridget Robinson [mailto:b.r.robinson@UKOLN.AC.UK]
Sent: 29 January 2003 11:39
To: JISC-DEVELOPMENT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Collection Description Forum

***Apologies for cross posting***

Collection Description Forum

In the course of it's work the Collection Description Focus has
identified a range of common problems shared by many projects and
services.
The Focus has proposed that work on these issues should be addressed
through an "open forum" - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/forum/
The aim of the forum is to:
* allow participants to share information and experience on these issues
* develop some form of consensus on means of addressing the issues
* capture this consensus in the form of good practice guidelines

As a starting point the Focus has drafted 3 Guidance Papers:

Creating reusable collection-level descriptions
Collection Description Focus Guidance Paper, No 1. November 2002.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/guides/gp1/

Maintaining collection-level descriptions
Collection Description Focus Guidance Paper, No 2. November 2002.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/guides/gp2/

Administrative metadata for collection-level descriptions Collection
Description Focus Guidance Paper, No 3. December 2002.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/guides/gp3/

The purpose is to stimulate debate, so that the papers can then be
refined and developed on the basis of implementer experience, to create
practical, "best practice" guidelines. Other papers will be added in due
course. A face to face meeting will be scheduled for spring 2003, once
the virtual forum has started to take shape.

****IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION******
***PLEASE JOIN THE COLLECTION DESCRIPTION MAILING LIST*****

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/collection-description.html

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Bridget Robinson, Collection Description Focus
UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY.
TEL: + 44 (0) 1225 383343 FAX: +44 (0) 1225 386838
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