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DCMI Collection Description Application Profile Task Group Wiki

Co-Chair: Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Co-Chair: Muriel Foulonneau, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Status: This Task Group is currently active.
Established: 2006-12-18
Purpose: This Task Group is responsible for the development of the DCMI Collection Application Profile, establishing procedures for the ownership and maintenance of the profile, and establishing procedures for the ownership and maintenance of terms used in the profile.

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This Wiki supports the work of the DCMI Collection Description Application Profile Task Group (DC CD AP TG).

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Purpose

The purpose of the DCMI Collection Description Application Profile Task Group is

The Task Group reports to the [WWW]DCMI Collection Description Community.

Workplan

#1. June 2010 - First draft to update the Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile to make it compliant with the Dublin Core Abstract Model

#2. September 2010 - Preparation of documents for the updated version of the AP

Dublin Core Collection Application Profile

The focus of the Task Group is the development of the [WWW]Dublin Core Collection Application Profile (DCCAP) and documents in this work area are created to support that activity.

The DCCAP is a specification of how to construct a DC description set containing descriptions of collections.

Current Working Documents

Some references

* Irene Lourdi, Christos Papatheodorou, Martin Doerr, [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july09/papatheodorou/07papatheodorou.html Semantic Integration of Collection Description - Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile], D-Lib Magazine July/August 2009

* Renear, A.H., K. Wickett, R. Urban, D. Dubin, and S. Shreeves. 2008. [WWW]Collection/Item metadata relationships. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Berlin, Germany, September 2008.

* Kakali, C., I. Lourdi, T. Stasinopoulou, L. Bountouri, C. Papatheodorou, M. Doerr, and M. Gergatsoulis. 2007. [WWW]Integrating Dublin Core metadata for cultural heritage collections using ontologies. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2007), Singapore.

* Foulonneau, M., T. Cole, T. Habing, and S. Shreeves. 2005. Using collection descriptions to enhance an aggregation of harvested item-level metadata. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, Denver, Colorado, USA.

* [WWW]http://selfdescription.org

* [WWW]Significance 2.0 : a guide to assessing the significance of collections

* [WWW]ANDS Register My Data Service

* Michael Hausenblas, [WWW]Discovery and Usage of Linked Datasets on the Web of Data, Nodalities Sept/Oct 2008]

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