RE: Meeting Thursday, February 19th at 2pm EST

Louis, 

 

I agree that 
the MODS and related MARC standards are an excellent set of metatags to look at 
in the context of legislative documents. We should all take a look and see if it 
can encompass meta data applicable to legis documents (which is not to say 
Dublin Core can do that either). This might lead to a blended standard 
(namespacing both in) or may be easy to XSLT for those who use one versus the 
other or going over to MODS completely.

 

MODS does 
seem to have a XSL to XSLT MODS into Dublin Core that may make use of either 
transparent to the adoption of any general standard.

http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml//xslt/MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl

I will into 
it more closely and the Dublin Core person on the next call can answer some of 
the questions related to it. 

 

Thanks very 
much for bringing this standard into the mix. The Library of Congress has 
obviously done an excellent job of thinking and implementing of standards that 
should be taken advantage of. 

Daniel

From: Louis Drummond 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 
7:40 AM
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Cc: Anne Washington; 

Subject: Re: Meeting Thursday, February 19th at 2pm 
EST

Daniel,

 

We've been talking to some colleagues at the Library of Congress about some 
of these topics.  Some of our standards experts are advising that we 
consider using MODS rather than Dublin Core.  I haven't yet studied all the 
differences, but you can find information about MODS at http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/.

 

Louis

>>> "Daniel Bennett" 
<> 02/10/04 03:00PM >>>

Legislative TC Phone 
Conference

Day/Date: Thursday,  February 19, 2004

Time of call: 2:00pm EST

Conference Dial-in: 512-225-3050

Conference Guest Code: 84759# 

AGENDA:

To discuss the use 
of a version of Dublin Core as a standard for legislative documents. There have been some new ideas regarding discovery and 
catagories for meta tags in DC.

Also, there will be a survey of what various 
legislative bodies are doing in XML. All information will be posted to the TC 
website. Please forward any contact info for states and other bodies to me. 

 

Daniel Bennett

Co-chair of Legislative 
TC

301-562-9339 (work)

202-258-0732 
(cell)