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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:51:13 -0500
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Subject: Dublin Core for cartographic materials
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Cross-posted to Maps-L, CORC-L, DC-general, and DC-libraries lists:

A task force on using Dublin Core for cartographic materials seeks your
input.

In January 2000, the Cataloging and Classification Committee (CCC) of the
American Library Association's Map and Geography Round Table (ALA MAGERT)
created a task force to study the application of Dublin Core to
cartographic materials.  Specifically, the committee charged the task force
with "studying how the Dublin Core framework can best be applied to
cartographic materials, in particular for cataloging cartographic materials
on the Internet.  If appropriate, the task force should suggest additions
or modifications to the Dublin Core so that it can better describe and
provide access to these materials."  The task force expects to make its
final report to the CCC in January 2001.

The task force welcomes and hereby solicits input from discussion list
participants who have created or are creating Dublin Core records for
cartographic materials on the Internet.  We would appreciate it if you
would bring to our attention the issues that you deal with in applying
Dublin Core to cartographic materials.  What problems do you see?  What
ways have you devised to deal with special map characteristics?  Also we
welcome discussion list participants who search for and use Dublin Core
records for cartographic materials in public service (e.g. reference
librarians), to send us your comments about the usefulness of the records
in describing and providing access to maps on the Internet.  You may send
your comments to me, or to any other task force member named below.

Members of the task force, with their e-mail addresses, are as follows:

David Allen, [log in to unmask]
Paula Moehle Church, [log in to unmask]
Scott McEathron, [log in to unmask]
Susan Moore, [log in to unmask]
Andrea Tully, [log in to unmask]
Nancy Kandoian, chair, [log in to unmask]

The task force has a resource person at OCLC, Ellen Caplan
<[log in to unmask]>, and an ex officio member, Barbara Story <[log in to unmask]>,
who is chair of the CCC.

Nancy Kandoian
Chair, CCC Task Force on Using Dublin Core for Cartographic Materials
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(212) 930-0586

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