Dear all, Recently, the Institute for Museum and Library Service convened a Digital Library Forum "to discuss networked digital libraries, including issues of infrastructure, metadata, thesauri, and other vocabularies, and content enrichment." The forum discussions led to the development of two reports including "A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections," which identifies core principles and related information resources for the creation of high-quality digital collections, objects, and metadata. http://www.imls.gov/pubs/forumframework.htm I pass along this reference to the framework for information and comment. I am particularly interested to learn your views about whether the framework, perhaps in some revised form, could be endorsed by the DLF and adopted not so much for particular recommendations (which would probably have to be vetted on an individual basis) but as a coherent container in which more specific good practice recommendations can be recorded and maintained. The framework seems to have real potential for bringing some coherence to what is at present a relatively chaotic mass of good practice information that is currently circulating in the ether. It would be helpful if I could have comments before Dec 25 2001. Provided there is sufficient enthusiasm, I would envisage initiating some process through which we could develop the framework further working closely of course with the IMLS and any other agencies that may be interested. The full text of the IMLS press release is also supplied below. Regards, Dan ********************************************* 6. I M L S I S S U E S T W O D I G I T A L L I B R A R Y F O R U M R E P O R T S F O R C O M M E N T This past Spring IMLS convened a Digital Library Forum "Report of the IMLS Digital Library Forum on the National Science Digital Library Program," produced jointly with representatives of the National Science Foundation's Science, Math, Engineering and Technology Education digital library project (otherwise known as the National Science Digital Library, or NSDL program) http://www.imls.gov/pubs/natscidiglibrary.htm IMLS requests comments on the reports. Please access the press release issuing the reports at: http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/110601-1.htm *********************************************