Collection Description Focus, Workshop 1
Collection Description Focus, Workshop 1
Discussion Group 1 : Describing Digital CollectionsParticipants - mix of backgrounds, experience - many without experience of creating collection descriptions Types of collections - bibliographic, multimedia, learning objects, statistical databases Different domains, different standards Not all aware of work of Interoperability Focus Some just want to be told what to do! Huge variety of experience, perspectives Even with central standards, issues - individual institutions drive Resource discovery, resource management, resource preservation : what elements required in a collection description to meet user needs & IP needs How to classify arbitrary collections? ("Give me everything on fish") Born-digital items vs. digital surrogates - does it matter? Standards - experience & best practice - need honesty! What did work?! What point on the "innovation cycle" are we at (in terms of standards for CLD)? Should we be looking at commercial solutions? Taking "our" developments and marketing them? How do you integrate commercial products/collections and homegrown stuff? Metadata - different users - complexity to suit all audiences |
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