Metadata Collection Level Description

Collection Description Focus

• Collection Description Focus

RSLP Collection Description Project

• Project Web pages
• An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues
• RSLP Collection Description Schema
• Collection description tool
• Data entry guidelines
• Enumerated list of collection types

Collection description review

• Collection Level Description - a review of existing practice, an eLib supporting study
• Analysis of the Z39.50 Profile for Access to Digital Collections and the Z39.50 Explain Service [PDF]

Some older resources

• Simple Collection Description - a draft report from the eLib Collection Description Working Group
  (based on Working group - a report on work in progress - 12 Oct 1998)

• Comparison of collection description schemes
• Archive of the collect-wg@ukoln.ac.uk mailing list
• A collection entity relationship diagram
• A proposed list of core collection description attributes and issues list
• A proposed list of collection Types with examples and their associated descriptions

• A proposed ROADS COLLECTION template.
• An example ROADS database, using the COLLECTION template, describing the JISC Current Content Collection
• An example record from the above database for the National Child Development Study

Background material

• Collection Description Meeting, 2 Sept 1998 - slides and draft minutes
• Describing Searchable SERVICES - mail message from Dan Brickley