Okay, “standards” might be a bit strong. But Library of Congress Marc to Dublin Core proposals do not work with Repositories. And the reason is that Library collections have a different purpose and function from Repository collections. Some examples. 110, 111, 710 and 711 all map to dc:creator according to loc’s Marc to DC crosswalk. [...]

I recently had an interesting experience from an academic friend of mine who, on learning that I worked on team involved with repository development, hit me hard over the head with all that she thought was absolutely evil about repositories. It’s a bit of a shock having a friend you think you are helping turn [...]

I’d be interested in hearing from anyone interested in this topic what sorts of things they’d expect or like to hear about in a presentation on this topic. Are there any here who are interested in this topic, whether DSpacers or VITALizers or Fezers or EPrinters or others? Since I’ve been asked to do a [...]

I’d love to hear from anyone in library-land who has used/heard of/rejected/embraced/toyed with MODS (metadata object description schema) as the next evolutionary step from MARC. I asked this question more locally about a year ago when I first started seriously to inform myself about metadata and got either blank or ‘don’t touch that’ looks back [...]