Is the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set suitable for ALA Archives Collection?
Toong Tjiek Liauw
(liauw@uiuc.edu)
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Subject Areas
Grade Levels
| Vocational, Undergraduate, Graduate, Continuing, Informal |
Unit Keywords
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LIS 380, Fall 2001, 2001, metadata, diversity, archives, ALA |
Open Directory Category
Rationale of the Unit
| The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set was invented originally to represent electronic/digital resources. To evaluate the feasibility of implementing it to an archival collection, samples of the collection will be encoded using the Dublin Core. |
Background and Resources
Activities and Open-ended problems
I created several web pages that contains some samples of archival collection from the ALA Archives at the University of Illinois Archives. Use of these samples as showcases in LIS 380 assignment has been approved by the Assistant Archivist under the term of Fair Use and will only be available for a certain period of time.
I devided my samples into five categories as follows:
- Text Collection
- Visual Collection
- Photographs
- Postcards
- Posters
- Manuscripts Collection
- Multimedia Collection
- Audio Recordings
- Video Recordings
- Web Sites Collection
The reason I put Manuscripts Collection as a separate collection is that I consider it to be an overlap between Text and Visual Collection, because of the decorative and/or illustrative elements used in them. [ Manuscript Studies Medieval and Early Modern]
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Dialogues, Discussions, and Presentations
| Discussion with Dr. Patricia Lawton on the existence of multiple manifestations of a Resource. |
Assessment, Related Questions, and Story of the Unit
Credits & Acknowledgements
- Christopher Prom (prom@staff.uiuc.edu) - Assistant University Archivist & Assistant Proffesor in Library Administration.
- Patricia Lawton (plawton@uiuc.edu) - LIS 450RO Professor
- Ann P. Bishop (abishop@uiuc.edu) - LIS 380 Professor
- Leslie G. Gasser (gasser@uiuc.edu) - LIS 380 Professor
- Bryan Michael Penne (bpenne@uiuc.edu) - LIS 380 Instructor
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