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I recommend wikipedia. There are a million fragmentary websites (wikis, blogs and so forth), but the network effect dictates that the big ones are going to win (however you measure win). For many things we deal with, wikipedia is the biggest and consistently wins (by, for example, turning up first in a google/bong search). Of the things you mentioned below, only HOWTO tutorials and FAQs are off topic, and the latter only by form not subject matter. Links to both on third party websites are on topic. cheers stuart Ingrid Schneider wrote: > Apologies for cross-posting. Some of you may have seen this last week. > > I have an idea that I've been tossing around for a while, and I'd like > to ask your opinion on it and gauge possible interest. > > As a new metadata librarian working on building a digital program from > the ground up, I've spent a lot of time searching for little bits of > information. Information on different metadata schemes, what software is > available for what purpose, functions of the software we currently have > that might help us on our way, exporting and importing data, etc., etc., > etc. > > The idea I had was to start a wiki where all the myriad knowledge and > information on metadata, digital collections, digital objects, IRs, etc. > can be gathered. I envision gathering such information as: > *Different metadata schemes: maybe summaries, intended uses, pros and > cons, idiosyncrasies, etc. > *Different software options: coverage of software being used in our > institutions; again with pros and cons, idiosyncracies, workarounds, etc. > *Processes: how exactly do you export from FileMaker Pro (for example)? > Or build a tab delimited file for importing? How does the tab delimited > file link to the digital objects? > *Resources: Information on relevant blogs, mailing lists, associations, > interest groups, etc. > *Information from mailing lists: Answers to questions that come up > frequently, topics that generate special interest among the > participants, topics that may be of interest to people outside of the list. > > Of course, I'm still learning much of this, so I'd have to ask for > community participation. If enough people seem interested in having the > resource available and/or contributing I'll go ahead and move forward > with it. Feel free to email me off list, and thank you for reading my > email! > > Ingrid Schneider -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository