California Digital
Library
Issues
lMetadata for “cultural heritage material” is all over the map and will likely continue to be so
—Best practices are
great, but they won’t directly (maybe indirectly) get us the consistent metadata we need to
drive our specific
applications/implementations
lWhy do this at all? Who is the audience?
—This is a bigger
question that the Academic/Digital Library community really needs to explore
—At what level of
application does this buck produce a bang?
•Collections to end all collections
•Collections built by front-line librarians to meet very
specific, assessable faculty
teaching/research needs
•Bit of both?