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Introduction to Collections and Collection-Level Description Bridget Robinson Collection Description Focus. UKOLN is supported by:. www.ukoln.ac.uk. A centre of expertise in digital information management. Introduction to Collections & Collection-Level Description.

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  1. Introduction to Collections and Collection-Level Description Bridget Robinson Collection Description Focus UKOLN is supported by: www.ukoln.ac.uk A centre of expertise in digital information management

  2. Introduction to Collections & Collection-Level Description • Collection Description Focus • What is a collection • What is a collection-level description

  3. Collection Description Focus • Improve consistency, compatibility of approaches • Funded by • RSLP • JISC/DNER • British Library • Re:source • Experience of RSLP Collection Description • Benefit from collaboration with • Interoperability Focus • JISC Information Environment Architecture Team • NOF-Digitise Technical Advisory Service • CIMI (museums)

  4. Collection Description Focus • Developing consensus • Gathering information • Building a community • Facilitating dialogue • CD Forum • Disseminating good practice • Organising events • workshops, briefing days • Giving presentations • Publishing articles and papers • Developing training resources • recommendations, guidelines, Online Tutorial

  5. Collection Description Focus • Supporting implementers • point of contact, advice • support for CLD in programmes • Research Support Libraries Programme • JISC programmes for building the IE • JISC Learning & Teaching (5/99) programme • NOF-Digitise • Re:source regional cross-domain research projects

  6. What is a collection? • Collection • “an aggregation of items” • Aggregations of, e.g. • natural objects: fossils, mineral samples… • created objects: artefacts, documents, records… • digital resources: documents, images, multimedia objects, data, software… • digital surrogates of physical objects: documents, images… • metadata: catalogue records, item descriptions, collection-level descriptions

  7. What is a collection? • Various criteria for aggregation, e.g. • By location • By type/form of item • By provenance of item • By source/ownership of item • By nature of item content (Resource Guides) • Any number of items • Permanent, temporary • Discrete, distributed • Collections created with intent/purpose • “consciously formed” • collection development policies

  8. Why collection-level description? • Enable collection provider to • disclose information about collections to users • Enable user to • discover/locate collections • select collections to explore/search on basis of summary description • compare collections as broadly similar objects (even where items heterogeneous) • understand conditions of access & use • interpret collections • Enable software agents to • select collections to search on behalf of user • control searches across multiple collections

  9. Collection ofmetadata records Collection of physicalobjects Collection of books Collection of digitalitems Database of CLDs CLDs provide high-level “map” of landscape for user, researcher, visitor….

  10. Who’s using Collection Description? • AIM25 • Archives Hub • Cecilia • Collections Navigator – NHM • Cornucopia • Crossroads

  11. Who’s using Collection Description? • EnrichUK.net: • ITAM: MIMAS Collection Description • Reveal • The Science & Culture website • SCONE

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