Dublin Core for an African context

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Dublin Core for an African context

• Pat Liebetrau
• Digital Imaging South Africa (DISA)
• Durban
• South Africa

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Digital Imaging South Africa

• First national collaborative digital project in
  South Africa
• collaboration - national and regional partners
• transformation process
• socio-political material
• scholarly and research resources

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Challenges

• capacity building
• digital skills libraries and archives
• sustainability
• ensuring high standards
• infrastructure

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Phase 1 - journals

• distributed scanning
• shortage of institutional staff
• limited capacity
• digital skills
• quality control

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Phase 2 archival material

• distributed metadata creation
• library and information management skills
• transference of digital skills
• English language first language
• standardisation
• partner commitment

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Aim

• keep it simple
• use an international metadata standard
• xml
• open source code
• minimise training required
• minimise input errors
• standardise input

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Solution

• Java based online input form
• Dublin Core simple
• online assistance - incorporate indexing
  guidelines
• drop down lists minimise errors
• online thesaurus predictive text, minimise
  spelling errors
• automatically generated xml file
• automatic generation of file name minimise file
  naming errors

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Online input form
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Pop-up help
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Populate the fields
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Preview the record
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Required fields
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xml record
lt?xml version"1.0"?gt lt?xml-stylesheet
type"text/xsl" href"J\Dublincore\dc.xsl"?gt lt!DO
CTYPE record SYSTEM "J\workshop\dublin
core\dtd\dubcore.dtd"gt ltrecord xmlnsdc"http//pu
rl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"gt ltdctitlegt Letter from
Thoko Mpumlwana to H Dlamlenze regarding the
Education Seminar lt/dctitlegt ltdcidentifiergt let1
9770328.032.009.271 lt/dcidentifiergt ltdccreatorgt
Thoko Mpumlwana lt/dccreatorgt ltdcdescriptiongt Let
ter from Thoko Mpumlwana to H Dlamlenze regarding
the Education Seminar on the 15th May 1977.
Contains a list of invitees to present papers at
the seminar and a tentative programme. lt/dcdescri
ptiongt ltdclanguagegt eng lt/dclanguagegt ltdcsubjec
tgt EDUCATION lt/dcsubjectgt ltdcsubjectgt CONFERENCE
S lt/dcsubjectgt ltdcsubjectgt BLACK
ADVANCEMENT lt/dcsubjectgt ltdcsubjectgt CORRESPONDE
NCE lt/dcsubjectgt ltdcsubjectgt BLACK
CONSCIOUSNESS lt/dcsubjectgt ltdccoveragegt CAPE
PROVINCE lt/dccoveragegt ltdccoveragegt SOUTH
AFRICA lt/dccoveragegt ltdcdategt 1977-03-28 lt/dcda
tegt
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Rendered with a stylesheet for quality control
Title Letter from Thoko Mpumlwana to H Dlamlenze
regarding the Education Seminar Identifier
let19770328.032.009.271 Creator Thoko
Mpumlwana Description Letter from Thoko
Mpumlwana to H Dlamlenze regarding the Education
Seminar on the 15th May 1977. Contains a list of
invitees to present papers at the seminar and a
tentative programme. Language eng Subject
EDUCATION Subject CONFERENCES Subject BLACK
ADVANCEMENT Subject CORRESPONDENCE Subject
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS Coverage CAPE PROVINCE
Coverage SOUTH AFRICA Date 1977-03-28
Type let Format text/xml Format Adobe
PhotoShop version 6 Format Epson GT12000
Format 2 pages
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Conclusions

• work in progress
• wide ranging applicability
• institutional repositories
• scholars
• students
• researchers
• minimal training required
• standardisation ensured global and local
• extensible
• portable

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• Web site
• http//disa.nu.ac.za
• E-mail contact
• liebetraup_at_ukzn.ac.za
• Acknowledgments and thanks
• Colleen Goldsworthy - DISA
• Alex Lyashok Aluka