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Of course, it would help if I sent the link! http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/DLF_MODS_ImpGuidelines_ver4.pdf (pdf document about 470 kb) Sarah >Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:52:54 -0600 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: "Sarah L. Shreeves" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: DLF MODS Implementation Guidelines available for public comment > >[Please excuse the cross-posting.] > >The Digital Library Federation’s Aquifer >Initiative is pleased to invite public review >and comment on the DLF MODS Implementation >Guidelines for Cultural Heritage Materials. > >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 or other means) >and that describe digital cultural heritage and humanities-based resources. > >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 ><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >The deadline for comments and review is January 20, 2006. > >Thank you! >The DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group > >Sarah Shreeves (Chair) – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >John Chapman – University of Minnesota >Bill Landis – California Digital Library >Liz Milewicz – Emory University >David Reynolds – Johns Hopkins University >Jenn Riley – Indiana University >Gary Shawver – New York University > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Sarah L. Shreeves >Coordinator, Illinois Digital Environment for >Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) >University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign >Phone: 217-244-3877 or 217-244-7809 >Email: [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sarah L. Shreeves Coordinator, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign Phone: 217-244-3877 or 217-244-7809 Email: [log in to unmask]