If you have an interest in library, museum or archive metadata, we want to hear from you.

JISC are seeking feedback on some metadata guidelines from people with expertise in working with library, archive and museum metadata.

JISC and RLUK are working together on a programme of work called the Resource Discovery Taskforce. The aim of the Resource Discovery Taskforce work is to enable new and enhanced services for end users to allow them to manage, explore and get access to the collections held by museums, libraries and archives. We plan to do this by making the metadata about these collections as open and reusable as possible.

This is easy to write, but extremely difficult to do.  There are many different content types, many different standards and existing systems and practices to fit in with.

Therefore we asked Andy Powell and Pete Johnston to prepare some high level guidelines for a metadata approach that would help deliver the aims of the Resource Discovery Taskforce. These guidelines will be important to future work that JISC funds in this programme and will also be central to any guidance and recommendations that JISC make to the libraries, museums and archives in Higher Education.

These guidelines are available now and we are seeking comments over the next 2 weeks. We’d really value your input. Andy and Pete have provided some introduction and context on their blog. And the guidelines themselves are available from JISCPress. The authors have seeded some questions in the comments for the areas they have pressing questions .

JISC and RLUK are working together on the Resource Discovery Taskforce programme and you can read more about the vision, implementation plan and history of this work over on the RDTF blog.

February 4, 2011 | Filed Under libraries, metadata | Author Andy McGregor 

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5 Responses to “If you have an interest in library, museum or archive metadata, we want to hear from you.”

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  2. Dmitry Mouromtsev on February 9th, 2011 8:32 pm

    We are doing an OWL-based knowledge base for the museum (http://optimus.edu.ru/en) in our university (http://en.ifmo.ru/) in Siant-Petersburg, Russia. Our work seems to have many in common with RDTF. If non UK partners are allowed we will be glad to participate this project.

  3. Andy McGregor on February 14th, 2011 9:13 pm

    Hi Dmitry. Your work sounds very interesting and very similar to work we have funded in the UK. Particularly to the projects on this page: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/infrastructureforresourcediscovery.aspx

    We are very interested in keeping up to date with work from outside the UK so it would be good to hear about progress on your project but we have no formal partnership arrangements for this work. My contact details are on this webpage: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/contactus/staff/andrewmcgregor.aspx I would be really interested to hear more about your work.

    Thanks

    Andy

  4. Emily Nedell Tuck on April 4th, 2011 2:47 pm

    I’d be happy to give you my feedback. I have an excellent background in metadata for museums, libraries, digital libraries and journal aggregators. I am currently Data Standards Manager for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and previously worked for a federated search company, Groxis, where I wrote technical requirments for metadata. I have also written some articles reviewing existing data standards for museums.

    Thanks,

    Emily

  5. Andy McGregor on April 4th, 2011 3:17 pm

    Hi Emily. Thanks very much for the offer. The comment period for this piece of work has ended. You can read a summary of all the feedback at: http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2011/03/rdtf-metadata-guidelines-next-steps.html We’re currently planning the next steps for this work.

    Thanks

    Andy

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