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Projects Using Dublin Core Metadata Organized
by Geographical Region
Europe
Denmark
InDoReg: Internet Document Registration
Home page: http://www.bs.dk/metadata/english.htm
The main objective of the first phase of the InDoReg project
(1996-1997) was to find a solution for registration of Internet
documents at the national bibliographic level. The objectives
of Phase 2 (1998-1999) are to implement Phase One recommendations,
which include the use of Danish Dublin Core in the registration
process. InDoReg is funded by the Danish National Library Authority.
Netpublikationer (Net Publications)
Home page: http://www.bs.dk/metadata/english.htm
All new publications issued by Danish ministries, government
offices and agencies must be published on the WWW with metadata
as part of the publication, parallel with the printed version.
The Danish Ministry of Research and Information Technology and
the Danish State Information Service have worked out a standard
describing how the publications shall be encoded. The publications
include guidelines for how to produce web publications. One recommendation
is for web publications to always have a HTML page with metadata
- human and machine-readable - even if the resource itself is
PDF. Danish Dublin Core will be used.
European Union
CEN/ISSS - Metadata-Dublin Core Workshop
Homepage: http://www.cenorm.be/isss/Workshop/MMI-DC/
The goals of this "Metadata - Dublin Core Workshop"
are as follows:
- to encourage cross-industry acceptance of the Dublin Core
Metadata Element Set by endorsing it as a CWA and also by the
provision of guidance information to European industry and users.
- to become a focal point where European projects and industry
can meet and discuss Dublin Core and other metadata activities,
and
- to produce a web based "observatory" on european
work on metadata
Electronic Library Image Service for Europe (ELISE II)
Home page: http://severn.dmu.ac.uk/elise/
The ELISE service will operate on a client/server model, making
use of z39.50 and Dublin Core. In the ELISE II prototype, the
catalogue data supplied by participating institutions is mapped
to DC and displayed alongside thumbnail images.
EULER (European Libraries and Electronic Resources in Mathematical
Sciences)
Home page: http://www.emis.de/projects/EULER/
The aim of this EU-funded project is to provide user-oriented,
integrated network based access to mathematical publication. The
EULER service intends to offer a "one-stop shopping site" for
users interested in Mathematics. Using Dublin Core-based Metadata
descriptions, EULER will integrate: Bibliographic databases; library
online public access catalogues; electronic journals from academic
publishers; online archives of preprints and grey literature;
and indexes of mathematical Internet resources. A common user
interface - the EULER Engine - will assist the user in searching
for relevant topics in all sources at once.
MALVINE: Manuscripts and Letters via
Integrated Networks in Europe
Home page: http://www.malvine.org
The MALVINE project opens new and enhanced access to disparate
holdings of modern manuscripts and letters, kept and catalogued
in European libraries, archives, documentation centers and museums.
The idea of MALVINE is to build a network of these institutions
in Europe; a network which is independent of heterogeneous technical
solutions (Detailed technical information) and which is accessible
from all over the world as if being a homogenous unified database.
A multilingual user interface will be provided, using an agreed
common terminology and will offer digitized surrogates of the
precious original documents.
Project BIBLINK
Home Page: http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/
A joint project of several national libraries and the European
Union, which aims to establish an electronic metadata link between
publishers and National Bibliographic Agencies (NBA's) to exchange
metadata records of newly published items. The demonstration phase
of this project is scheduled to run between November 1997 and
March 1999.
Project DESIRE
Home Page:http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/surfnet/projects/desire/desire.html
DESIRE demonstrates two approaches to resource discovery: subject based services
based on manual selection and description of high quality resources, and a regional
search service based on metadata generated by automated web crawlers. The project
aims to monitor and incorporate new developments in metadata management as appropriate.
The automated web crawler is now "metadata aware" and will gather Dublin Core
descriptions.
 SCHEMAS
Home page: http://www.schemas-forum.org/
SCHEMAS is an accompanying measure under the European Commission's IST programme,
aiming to guide and educate metadata schema implementers about the status and
proper use of new and emerging metadata standards, and to promote good-practice
guidelines for adapting multiple standards or metadata modules for local use in
customised schemas. For further information, see the SCHEMAS Web site.
France
CISMeF (Catalog and Index for French Speaking Health Sites)
Home page: http://www.chu-rouen.fr/ssf/ssf.html
CISMeF, Catalog and Index for French Speaking Health Sites, is
devoted to indexing and describing French language Internet resources
in the areas of medicine and health. We use DC elements like description,
resource type, source, language and subject. For the keywords
scheme, we use the MeSH thesaurus of Medline, including its French
translation.
French National Mathematical Preprint and Thesis Project
Home page: http://www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/math-prepub/
The French National Mathematical Preprint and Thesis Project
aims to build a comprehensive index giving access to mathematical
grey literature by using robot-based gathering and indexing of
abstracts distributed over many web sites. Each abstract contains
DC metadata, either created by authors, via a form, or by librarians,
via automatic transformation of database records. General information
about the project (in French) can be found athttp://www-mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/math-prepub/.The
index can be directly queried at http://www.mathdoc.ujf-grenoble.fr/prepub.html.
Francois Rabelais University Libraries
Home page: http://www.scd.univ-tours.fr/
The website for the Francois Rabelais University allows users
to access several parts of the University library and five different
departmental library sites. The web site also gives access to
the OPAC of the University Library and the CESR (Center for Higher
Renaissance Studies).
Germany
Electronic Visualization Library
Home page: http://visinfo.zib.de/
The Electronic Visualization Library (Evlib) is a distributed
electronic publishing service. Visualization experts and authors
of documents about topics related to data visualization are invited
to submit their documents or references to them, to allow the
visualization community faster access to available information.
The German Educational Resources Server [Deutscher Bildungs-Server]
Home page: http://dbs.schule.de/indexe.html
This site currently contains about 2,000 Web documents about
teaching and learning materials from students, teachers, publishers
and state educational authorities. Supported by the German society
of Educational Scientists (DgfE) and other educational organizations,
the German Educational Resources Server includes directories of
educational researchers and institutions of higher education with
teacher training programs. It serves as a hub of a larger national
network of state and regional educational servers.
MPRESS/MathNet
Home page: http://MathNet.preprints.org
MPRESS is an index which has, currently, about 35,000 mathematical
preprints. The standard way for authors to contribute: create
DC Metadata using form interfaces. The documents themselves reside
on more than 100 distributed hosts. The service allows for browsing
along Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) and authors' list
and searching the Metadata of the documents. It leads the user
to the (full text) resource on the originating site. Problems
of heterogeneity between different interpretations of DC are reduced
using filters during the import of data into the index.
Metadata Project [Metadaten-Projekt]
Home page: http://www2.sub.uni-goettingen.de
This project explores the use of metadata from a library point
of view and looks at the impact of the developments in networked
information resource discover on traditional cataloging rules.
The project is aimed at the transmission of the accumulated know-how
in networked resource discovery from the international to the
German library scene and is part of a larger project involving
several German libraries and library institutions.
Network of Libraries in Southwestern Germany [Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum
(BSZ) Baden-Wuerttemberg (Sudwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund-SWB-Verbund)
Home page: http://www.swbv.uni-konstanz.de/wwwroot/s71800_d.html
This library network operates the central bibliographic database
for this region with about 16,000,000 holdings, including electronic
documents with remote access. Catalogue information and document
are linked with a URL using a "frontdoor" on our document and
library server.
PhysNet (was Electronic Information Management and Metadata
in Physics)
Home page: http://i.am/physnet
PhysNet offers a set of lists of links to all Physics Institutions
worldwide ordered by country and town and a search facility on
the Web through the local Physics Institutions for locally stored
documents.
Subject Area Information for Anglo-American History
Subject Area Information for Anglo-American Literature
Subject Area Information for Earth Sciences [SSG-Fachinformation
(SSG-FI) Geowissenschaften]
Subject Area Information for Mathematics [SSG-Fachinformation
(SSG-FI) Mathematick]
Home page: http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi/
Metadata is generated for the listing and evaluation of information
related to Mathematics, Earth Sciences or Anglo-American History
and Literature. Sources include Internet servers, CD-ROM's and
reference books.
Netherlands
DONOR (Directory of Netherlands Online Resources)
Home page: http://www.konbib.nl/donor/index-en.html
The objective of DONOR is to create an enabling infrastructure
for information management and retrieval on SURFnet, the national
research network of the Netherlands. DONOR will provide a co-ordinated
approach to document and metadata management on the web.
The National Library of the Netherlands [Koninklijke Bibliotheek]
Home page: http://www.konbib.nl/
The National Library of the Netherlands is in the process of
developing a new version of its Web-information service. There
will be a new layout, new functionality features and DC Metadata
element incorporated into the HTML pages. The final version is
expected to be up and running in Fall 1997.
Scandinavia
The Nordic Metadata Project
Home page: http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/
Among Nordic countries, there is a special need for shared metadata
creation system, as it will facilitate further the already active
use of ILL and document delivery services within Scandinavia.
The Dublin Core is being used to provide and enhance end-user
services by making a diversity of digital documents more easily
searchable and deliverable over the Net.
Scotland
SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network)
Home Page: http://www.scran.ac.uk
SCRAN is a project to build a networked multimedia resource base
for the study, teaching and appreciation of history and material
culture in Scotland. The founding partners are the National Museums
of Scotland, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical
Monuments of Scotland, and the Scottish Museums Council. It is
anticipated that easy access to 1.5 million text records of artifacts
and historic monuments and 100,000 related multimedia resources
will be available by the year 2001.
Sweden
SAFARI
Home page: http://safari.hsv.se/index.html.en
SAFARI is a system for disseminating Swedish research information
on the Internet. It will allow various groups, such as journalists,
upper secondary school students, firms and other organisations
to find information from research throughout the whole of Sweden,
by only haveing to search for the information at a single source.
SAFARI is an acronym (in Swedish) translated as "the spreading
of research information to the general public over the Internet."
Swedish EnviroNet
Home page: http://smn.environ.se/
The Swedish EnviroNet is a project of the Swedish government,
which is a gateway to electronic data and information on the Swedish
environment. The EnviroNet provides links, metadata and other
general services to the web sites of major public agencies, NGO's
and private companies in the environmental field.
Ukraine
Ukrainian Library Association Metadata Project
Home page: http://lucl.lucl.kiev.ua/win/metadata.html
Under the auspices of the Ukrainian Library Association,
a task force has been formed. The members of this task force include
G. Jaia Barrett, Deputy Executive
Director, Association of Research Libraries, Svetlana
Sanzhak, Automation Director, Lesia Ukrainka Public Library
of Kyiv, Igor Torlin, Automation
Director, State Library of the Ukraine for Children and Hanna
Voskrensenska, Head, Foreign Publications Department, National
Parliamentary Libary of the Ukraine. They have already posted
a copy of the Dublin Core Element Set in Ukrainian and hope to
provide a template at this site, in the near future, to help web
resources' creators to compile DC metadata and to collect metadata
of Ukrainian web resources.
United Kingdom
AHDS Arts & Humanities Data Service
Home page: http://ahds.ac.uk/
The AHDS is a federal organisation, consisting of a central Executive
and five service providers encompassing archaeology, history,
textual studies and the performing and visual arts. The goal of
this organisation is to build an integrated system capable of
providing a seamless whole to the user of the electronic resources
available from each service provider.
Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
and the Visual Arts Data Service
Home page: http://adam.ac.uk/
Home page: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/
The Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
and the Arts Data Service are two services that aim to provide
the UK Higher Education community with fast, reliable access to
high quality networked resources in the visual arts, and to promote
the use of standards of best practice through example and outreach.
NewsAgent for Libraries
Home page: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc/newsagent/
The aim of the NewsAgent project is to create an electronic news
and current awareness service for library and information staff
with a mixture of content streams, providing up to date descriptions
of documents to end users based on user-configurable preferences.
open.gov.uk
Home Page: http://www.open.gov.uk
The open.gov.uk service, a first entry point to UK public sector
information on the internet, uses the Dublin Core RDF vocabulary
to describe each of the resources available on the site.
Thanks to Nancy Morgan (nmorgan@iis.syr.edu)
for her assistance in keeping the project information up-to-date.
Additions, deletions and changes to this list are welcomed. Please
submit all information to dc@oclc.org
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