Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 438.
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:45:39 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Western Trails - New Best Practice Documents Available
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
January 22, 2003
Western States Digital Standards Group Announces
Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices
and Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices
http://www.cdpheritage.org
http://www.cdpheritage.org/westerntrails/wt_bpmetadata.html
>Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:34:38 -0700
>From: Liz Bishoff <liz@bishoff.com>
>>To: David Green <david@ninch.org>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Western Trails Grantees WTGRANTEES
>[mailto:WTGRANTEES@LIST.COALLIANCE.ORG] On Behalf Of Richard Urban
>Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:00 PM
The Western States Digital Standards Group is please to announce the
availability of the Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices
and Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices. Both documents are
available through the Colorado Digitization Program website at
http://www.cdpheritage.org
BACKGROUND
Western Trails is a multi-state collaborative initiative to create a
virtual collection of widely dispersed digital resources on this subject,
spearheaded by the University of Denver, Colorado.
As part of this IMLS-funded initiative, 23 institutions in four Western
states were awarded mini-grants to create digital content and metadata for
resources related to Western trails. In addition to creating a virtual
collection of digital resources, the project set about developing a set of
Dublin-Core based best practices by representatives from cultural heritage
institutions beyond the original four participating states.
Accordingly, in March 2002, 18 representatives from eight Western states
met in Denver, Colorado to begin exploring issues associated with
application of Dublin Core to digital objects by cultural heritage
institutions. This group, the Western States Digital Standards Group
(WSDSG) Metadata Working Group, formed two task forces to develop
guidelines for the Dublin Core metadata. The WSDSG Metadata Working Group
met again in Topeka, Kansas in July 2002 to finalize the guidelines and
determine the remaining components of a best practices document.
In November 2002 the resultant WSDSG Guidelines for the Dublin Core
Elements were posted on the web site of the Colorado Digitization Program
(CDP) and the Western Trails project website. In January 2003, the WSDSG
Best Practices document will be released. This Best Practices document is
based upon and supercedes the CDP's General Guidelines for Descriptive
Metadata Creation and Metadata.
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Richard Urban
Operations Coordinator
Colorado Digitization Program
rurban@du.edu
(303) 871-4558
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