Usage Guides for Collection Description

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Collection Description Community is gathering information about usage guidelines for, and examples of, collection description. A webpage that assembles the information already contributed is at:

http://epub.mimas.ac.uk/DC/dc-collections/usage-guides.html

Further contributions are welcome. Please send them to me (ann.apps@manchester.ac.uk) or to the DCMI Collection Description Community email listserv (dc-collections@jiscmail.ac.uk) (you need to be subscribed to the listserv to post to it). Following is the original request sent to the DCMI Collection Description Community for information about usage guidelines.

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Please would anyone who has a collection-based project / service / application, and who is willing to share details of their usage guidelines, or examples of collection description, send them to this group (or to me). I will create a web page of links to produce an accumulated set of knowledge and expertise in this area.

We learnt at the DC2007 conference that a Dublin Core (DC) Application Profile (actually a DC Abstract Model-conformant Application Profile) is now a package, known as the Singapore Framework, which comprises:

• Functional requirements (recommended)


• Domain model (mandatory)


• Description Set Profile (DSP) (mandatory)


• Usage Guidelines (optional)


• Encoding syntax guidelines (optional)

It has been suggested that we should create usage guidelines for collection description. It seems to me that it would be a significant job. And maybe there would need to be guidelines on different levels, eg some for library collections with strict cataloguing rules, and different guidelines for collections in other domains.

A first step would be to assess existing usage guidelines from applications, projects, services that are collection-based. Hence my request at the start of this message.

Thanks in advance for any contributions

Dublin Core Collections Application Profile is Conformant

I am very pleased to report that the Dublin Core Collections Application Profile is now 'conformant'.

The DCMI Usage Board, at their recent meeting, reviewed the updated version of the Dublin Core Collections Application Profile (DCCAP) and agreed that it conforms with the Dublin Core Abstract Model, is internally consistent, and is documented according to guidelines.

The revision of the DCCAP to produce this conformant version was undertaken by the DCMI Collections Application Profile Task Group. So I wish to acknowledge this group for all their hard work, in particular the Task Group leaders Sarah Shreeves and Muriel Foulonneau. Credit should also be given to Pete Johnston, the previous chair of the DCMI Collection Description Working Group, whose hard work over quite some time resulted in the previous, substantial versions of the DCCAP.

The conformant DCCAP is at:
http://www.dublincore.org/groups/collections/collection-application-profile/

There is a summary at:
http://www.dublincore.org/groups/collections/collection-ap-summary/

Several associated documents are:
Collections Type Vocabulary: http://www.dublincore.org/groups/collections/colldesc-type/

Collections Terms: http://www.dublincore.org/groups/collections/collection-terms/

Accrual Policy terms: http://www.dublincore.org/groups/collections/accrual-policy/

Accrual Method terms: http://www.dublincore.org/groups/collections/accrual-method/

Frequency Vocabulary: http://www.dublincore.org/groups/collections/frequency/