School of Information Management & Systems.   Spring 2001.
245 Organization of Information in Collections.   Michael Buckland.

Assignment 9: Dublin Core.   Due March 5.

In Assignment 3, you described four books for your own personal purposes and using your own rules of description. Now repeat Assignment 3 using the same or other books from the same seven, but with two changes:

1. You are creating the descriptions for other people to use; and

2. Your descriptions must comply with the Dublin Core system of elements of description.

Describe what population of other people you are preparing the descriptions for and, briefly, what assumptions are you making about them. Working primarily from the books themselves, create new descriptions of four book that are at least minimally compliant with the Dublin Core, but not necessarily following all the recommendations. Add notes explaining anything that might not be obvious about what you have done.
Some resources:   Taylor textbook pages 87-89, 90-91.   The Dublin Core website.   The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description.   A condensed summary.

3. Read a recent progress report on the development of the Dublin Care as a standard: The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions by Stuart L. Weibel and Traugott Koch in DLib Magazine Dec 2000.