A few updates

Progress Report to the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA)
This week I’ve been attending the 2009 COSLA meeting in Nevada. Thanks to IMLS DCC Advisory Board member Jim Scheppke, I was invited to provide the COSLA Networking Committee with an update on our progress that I’ve shared in the [...]

Recent papers available in IDEALS

The following recent papers from the IMLS DCC team are now available in IDEALS (Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship):
Interim Performance Report for Oct. 2008 – March 2009
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/11720
Zheng, Wu (2009). Exploring Hidden Connections among Historic Images. Displayed at iConference 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Feb. 8-11, 2009.
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9608

Collection / Item Metadata Relationships questions

During the Spring 2009 term, the Collection/Item Metadata Relationships (CIMR) working group will be taking a bottom-up approach to looking at our relationship categories amongst the collection and item-level metadata held by the project. We would welcome any advice or feedback on these initiatives:
Testing Category Rules
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We intended to develop a small-scale testbed (using a [...]

Collection/Item Metadata Relationship Papers now in IDEALS

The following recent papers from the Collection/Item Metadata Relationships team are now available in the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS)
Renear, A.H., Urban, R.J., Wickett, K.M., Palmer, C.L. and Dubin, D. (2008). Sustaining Collection Value: Managing Collection/Item Metadata Relationships. Presented at Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu, Finland, June 25-29, 2008.
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9128
Renear, A. [...]

IMLS Digital Collections and Content at Dublin Core 2008

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content project team will be presenting two papers at Dublin Core 2008:
Wednesday, September 24 — Collection/Item Metadata Relationships – Allen H. Renear, Richard J. Urban, Karen M. Wickett, David Dubin, Sarah L. Shreeves
Wednesday, September 24 — Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata – Oksana Zavalina, Carole Palmer, Amy S. [...]