Preface

This document has been prepared as a working paper in the Indexing and Cataloguing work package of the DESIRE project (WP4), funded by the European Union as part of the Telematics for Research area of the Fourth Framework Programme.

This particular task is co-ordinated by UKOLN and the involved partners are UKOLN at the University of Bath, Loughborough University, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, and SOSIG at the University of Bristol.

In preparing the material, the authors contacted a range of standards developers and implementors for further information or clarification. We would like to thank them for their kind co-operation and assistance. Any errors or misinterpretations remain the authors'. Those contacted included:

• CIMI (Bill Moen)

• CDWA (Murtha Baca)

• EAD (Daniel Pitti)

• EELS (Traugott Koch)

• EEVL (Malcolm Moffat)

• FGDC (Doug Nebert)

• ICPSR (Ann Green, Mary Vardigan)

• UNIMARC (Brian Holt)

A companion document (no. 1004 (RE)) lays out recommendations for metadata use within the subject-based information gateways within Desire <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/DESIRE/recommendations/>.