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The Digital Library Federation’s Aquifer Initiative is pleased to invite
public review and comment on the <i>DLF MODS Implementation Guidelines
for Cultural Heritage Materials</i>.<br>
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The primary goal of the Digital Library Federation’s Aquifer Initiative
is to enable distributed content to be used effectively by libraries and
scholars for teaching, learning, and research. The provision of rich,
shareable metadata for this distributed content is an important step
towards this goal. To this end, the Metadata Working Group of the DLF
Aquifer Initiative has developed a set of implementation guidelines for
the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS). These guidelines are meant
specifically for metadata records that are to be shared (whether by the
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI PMH) or
other means) and that describe digital cultural heritage and
humanities-based scholarly resources. The Guidelines are available at
<a href="http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/DLF_MODS_ImpGuidelines_ver4.pdf">
http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/DLF_MODS_ImpGuidelines_ver4.pdf</a> (pdf
document about 470 kb).<br>
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In order to ensure the Implementation Guidelines are useful and coherent,
we are collecting comments and feedback from the wider digital library
community. We appreciate any and all comments, feedback, and questions.
These may be sent to DLF-MODS-GUIDELINES-COMMENTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU.
The deadline for comments and review is January 20, 2006.<br>
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DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group:<br>
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Sarah Shreeves (Chair) – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>
John Chapman – University of Minnesota<br>
Bill Landis – California Digital Library<br>
Liz Milewicz – Emory University<br>
David Reynolds – Johns Hopkins University<br>
Jenn Riley – Indiana University<br>
Gary Shawver – New York University <br>
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Sarah L. Shreeves<br>
Coordinator, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and
Scholarship (IDEALS)<br>
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign<br>
Phone: 217-244-3877 or 217-244-7809<br>
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