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These are all great! Thanks folks. And if anyone else has some to add, please do. The more I have the more chance of convincing the standards folks that we have a need, and we're ready. At least, that's my goal. kc On 10/10/17 7:43 PM, sjc5 wrote: > Hi Karen, > > Saw your C4L post... If it helps, myself and a couple of people from the > DLF AIG Metadata Assessment Group have started a website project that's > intended to be a collection/repository of metadata application profiles, > mappings, and related specifications of metadata conventions in digital > collections. Our mission is to provide the metadata community with a > central hub of varied approaches to metadata guidance, as well as > providing the community a way to share its work with peers. > > It's early days yet, but we have a few initial documents uploaded. At > DLF, members of the Assessment Group are going to actively encourage new > mapping submissions. Hopefully, we'll get some new additions in the > coming weeks. > > If you're interested, have a look: > https://dlfmetadataassessment.github.io/MetadataSpecsClearinghouse/ > > Thanks, > --Scott Carlson > Metadata Coordinator > Rice University, Fondren Library > [log in to unmask] > 713-348-3727 > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Karen Coyle" <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: Oct 10, 2017 5:21 PM >> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Needed: some metadata documentation examples >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Cc: >> >> Hello, all. I'm working on some projects where we are trying to define >>> formats and guidance for metadata *profiles*. You may have seen the >>> profiles that were created at one point for BIBFRAME (I can't find them >>> at the moment on the new site) - they were more "list-like" than the >>> fancy BF-lite site, but mostly the same idea. Profiles often are a >>> simple list of data elements or properties, sometimes with a bit more >>> info like cardinality.[1] >>> >>> What I want to find are some examples of documentation aimed at those >>> creating the metadata records that explain what goes into the metadata, >>> and hopefully some rules like "this has to be a date in the format >>> yyyy-mm-dd". I'm guessing that folks using systems like contentDM may >>> have something of this nature. Obviously, the whole RDA enchilada would >>> be way too much to chew on at this point. If you can point me to >>> documentation that you have created or use, I would appreciate it. If I >>> decide to do more with it than ruminate I will let you know. >>> >>> I want to note that part of the goal is to link metadata schema >>> documentation and metadata user documentation with a validation language >>> like ShEx.[2] If you want to know more, ping me, but we should have more >>> to say after the Dublin Core meeting in D.C. later this month, where we >>> are having a whole day on profiles, Oct 27, called "taming the >>> graph".[3] >>> >>> Thanks, >>> kc >>> >>> [1] You can find some profiles based on the W3C standard DCAT here: >>> https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Main_Page#Non-W3C_Documents, and you >>> may find some other interesting links on that page. >>> [2] http://shex.io/ >>> [3] http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/ >>> -- >>> Karen Coyle >>> [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net >>> m: +1-510-435-8234 >>> skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600 >>> > > > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600