Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Brian Kelly
About This Document This briefing document provides an introduction to using Collection Description metadata as a collection management tool. Managing Collections Many collections are in fact groupings of smaller collections. These smaller collections may have been bought, donated, acquired by exchange, or created through digitisation programmes. While organisations may think they know just what they [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Brian Kelly
About This Document This briefing document provides an introduction to Collection Description as a resource discovery tool. Why Do We Need It? Archives, libraries and museums each have their own approach to resource discovery. Traditionally libraries used catalogues to describe individual items, archives used finding aids which set items as an integral part of a [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Brian Kelly
About This Document This briefing document provides a brief introduction to the concept of Collections. What Is A Collection? A collection is a group of resources that are related to each other in some identifiable way. The relationship might be through a topic, a place, a person, an organisation or a type of object. A [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Brian Kelly
About This Document This briefing document provides an introduction to Collection Description. What Is Collection Description? Collection Description is a term which is used to describe structured information about a group of resources (a collection) that have some identifiable relationship to each other. Where traditionally collection descriptions have been included in directories and guides of [...]
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