Projects Using Dublin Core Metadata Organized
by Geographical Region
North America
Mexico
Phronesis System
Home page: http://copernico.mty.itesm.mx/~tempo/Projects
System Demo: http://copernico.mty.itesm.mx/~tempo/phronesis/Default_en.html
The Phronesis system is a single-system software tool that allows
the creation of distributed digital library collections on the
Internet. The system is freely available and allows the submission,
searching, retrieval, and administration of a distributed digital
library via WWW. The tool uses the Dublin Core set for the metadata
of the document collections. It was developed by ITESM Campus
Monterrey, Mexico.
United States
CIMI (Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information)
Dublin Core Metadata Testbed
Home page: http://www.cimi.org
Launched in May 1998, the CIMI Dublin Core (DC) Metadata Testbed
is an initiative that is evaluating the Dublin Core Metadata standard
for resource discovery for museum information. Testbed participants
include a cross section of museums, cultural support organizations
and vendors. In all there are fifteen organizations representing
seven countries on four continents. During the past 15 months,
participants created a test database of over 200,000 records representing
an arrary of items, collections, disciplines and cultural artifacts
as well as published a guide to best practice for DC use in museums.
CORC (Cooperative Online Resources Cataloging)
Home page:http://purl.oclc.org/corc/
The CORC Research Project will explore the cooperative creation
of a catalog of Internet resources. Among the goals of the project:
accommodation of both local and shared metadata, promotion of
mixing of metadata for physical and digital items, RDF/XML import
and export, MARC and Dublin Core import and export, and the
integration of Dublin Core and MARC into a single system.
Digital Library Catalog
Home page: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Catalog
This project includes books, essays, speeches, and other textual
material in HTML, technical reports (in various formats), photographs,
engravings and other visual materials, and video and sound clips.
Everglade Information Network & Digital Library
Home page: http://everglades.fiu.edu/
The collection will include technical reports, scientific papers,
conference programs and abstracts, numerical vegetation or water
quality data, maps, slides and photos, legal documents and archival
documents covering the subject areas of long-term ecological
research, biotic and hydrologic data, marine ecology, and wetlands
restoration and resource management.
Florida International University Digital Library
Home page: http://www.fiu.edu/~diglib/
This digital library project will focus on images, sound and video including
multimedia presentations and curriculum modules and will support
every subject covered by university teaching and research.
Foundations Project
Home page: http://bridges.state.mn.us/
The Foundations Project is a State of Minnesota multi-agency
collaborative project aimed at improving public access to environmental
and natural resources data and information. The focus of the Project
is on developing intuitive and easy to use search tools and strategies.
Staff and agency participants catalog many kinds of electronic
information resources using qualified Dublin Core elements. These
resources can be used to develop advanced search and retrieval
techniques that integrate access to this information across agency
Web sites. The search interface is called Bridges (http://bridges.state.mn.us/),
signifying the metaphorical spanning of information across Minnesota
state agencies. Based on project research findings and using principles
of information architecture, a "blueprint" specifying
best practices for Minnesota state environmental Web sites is
being created. As the Foundations Project nears completion, efforts
are in place to bring the successes and blueprint to the remaining
state agencies.
Gateway to Educational Materials
Home page: http://gem.syr.edu
GEM is an initiative of the US Department of Education and
the National Library of Education. It's goal is to improve the
organization and accessibility of the substantial, but uncataloged,
collections of educational materials which are already available
on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial
Internet sites.
Mantis
Home page: http://purl.oclc.org/mantis
Mantis is a research project at OCLC exploring the use and
integration of Dublin Core, RDF, XML, Scorpion and Kilroy. This
includes providing: minimal, automated online metadata creation
using Dublin Core; database searching using Dublin Core, native
views and full text; guided Internet harvesting to aid in the
selection of items to catalog; and metadata exchange capabilites
using RDF and XML.
Medical Metadata Project
Home page: http://medir.ohsu.edu/~maletg/MedMetadata.HTM
The Oregon Health Sciences University, the American Medical
Informatics Association Internet Working Group and the National
Cancer Institute are working together to provide a test set
of the National Cancer Institute Cancer Genetics database.
Monticello Electronic Library
Home page: http://www.solinet.net/monticello/
The basic function of the Monticello Electronic Library is to
link distributed regional resources regardless of source or type
of information. The Dublin Core Element Set is being used to provide
semantic interoperability between several databases of electronic
media and record types including SGML, EAD, Finding Aid, MARC
and GILS collections.
Scout Report Signpost
Home page: http://www.signpost.org/signpost/index.html
Developed by the Internet Scout Project, with support from
NSF, Signpost is a searchable and browsable database to the
contents of the Scout Report (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/index.html).
It is a research project utilizing AACR2R, LCSH and LCC within
a modified DC framework for the purposes of describing Internet
resources.
University of Arizona: Resources for SiteSearch Implementation
Home page:http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/sitesearch/welcome.html
The University of Arizona Library has created this site to
provide a variety of Internet accessible databases that include
images, video, sound and documents.
University of Michigan Digital Library Registry Database
Home page: http://www.lib.mich.edu/registry/
This project will create a searchable, browsable database of
World Wide Web resources that have been chosen for their institutional
or academic value. It will provide metadata elements facile
enough for non-specialists users to supply most of the element
content, yet robust enough to support sophisticated browse,
search and retrieval functionality.
University of Washington Digital Library
Home page: http://content.engr.washington.edu/
The University of Washington digital Library is contributing
to the development and adoption of standard resource descriptors
for networked information; our initial efforts in this arena
focus on image collections. The project is using extended Dublin
Core descriptors for image collections.
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 |
