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Pete Johnston UKOLN, University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY

Raising standards for collection description: subjects and strength in CLDs Collection Description Focus Workshop 3 Edinburgh, 21 March 2002. Pete Johnston UKOLN, University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY. Email cd-focus@ukoln.ac.uk URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/. UKOLN is supported by:.

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Pete Johnston UKOLN, University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY

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  1. Raising standards for collection description:subjects and strength in CLDsCollection Description Focus Workshop 3 Edinburgh, 21 March 2002 Pete Johnston UKOLN, University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY Email cd-focus@ukoln.ac.uk URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ UKOLN is supported by:

  2. Raising standards for collection description • Collection Description Focus • CLDs as metadata • resource discovery • resource management • “Raising standards” Collection Description Focus Workshop 3, 21 March 2002

  3. Collection Description Focus • Funded by • RSLP • JISC/DNER • British Library • UKOLN experience of RSLP Collection Description • Benefit from collaboration with • Interoperability Focus • JISC Information Environment architecture team • CIMI (museums) • Dublin Core Collection Description WG Collection Description Focus Workshop 3, 21 March 2002

  4. Collection Description Focus • Improve consistency, compatibility of approaches • Point of contact, advice • support for CLD in programmes • Gather information on existing practice • survey questionnaire, implementer visits • Consensus-building • CD Forum • Disseminate good practice • workshops, briefing days • publications • recommendations, guidelines Collection Description Focus Workshop 3, 21 March 2002

  5. CLDs as metadata • Metadata • “Machine understandable information about web resources or other things” (Berners-Lee, 1997) • Structured data about resources that can be used to help support a wide range of operations • A collection is a type of resource; CLDs are metadata records • Support • resource discovery • resource management • Used by • human agents, software agents Collection Description Focus Workshop 3, 21 March 2002

  6. CLDs as resource discovery metadata • Resource users wish to • searchacross,interpret, and compare resource descriptions from different provider communities • Resource providers wish to • disseminate resource descriptions widely • Resource discovery metadata is • used beyond its creator community • combined with metadata from other communities (aggregated or cross-searched) • challenge of “semantic interoperability” Collection Description Focus Workshop 3, 21 March 2002

  7. CLDs as resource discovery metadata • CLDs support “survey of information landscape” • “to identify areas rather than specific features - to identify rainforest rather than to retrieve an analysis of the canopy fauna of the Amazon basin” (Heaney, 2000) Collection Description Focus Workshop 3, 21 March 2002

  8. CLDs as resource discovery metadata • Find: • to locate entities corresponding to user criteria • provision of access points for effective search • Identify: • to confirm that entity is entity sought, distinguish similar entities • sufficient level of description to differentiate • Select: • to choose entity appropriate to requirements • sufficient level of description to indicate content, use requirements • (Obtain) Collection Description Focus Workshop 3, 21 March 2002

  9. CLDs as resource management metadata • Use CLDs to establish control of resources • multi-level description • CLDs support collaborative collection management • how to reconcile growing number/cost of publications with shrinking resources • partners co-operate on approach to collection development • share information • avoid unnecessary duplication • co-ordinate expensive purchases • CLDs to improve decision making • identify & record strengths, weaknesses Collection Description Focus Workshop 3, 21 March 2002

  10. Raising standards • Subject terms and subject schemes • access point for resource discovery (find) • subject of collection v subject of content/items in collection? • subject schemes for CLD v subject schemes for item-level description? • domain-specific v cross-domain? • Strength indicators • resource management • also resource discovery (select) • how to measure strength? • relationship with subject schemes? Collection Description Focus Workshop 3, 21 March 2002

  11. Acknowledgements • UKOLN is funded by Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK higher and further education funding councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based. • http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Collection Description Focus Workshop 3, 21 March 2002

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