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Göttingen Library Metadata

• Ralf Schimmer
• SUB Göttingen
• schimmer_at_mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de

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Metadata Activities

• SSGFI Special Subject Gateways
• Meta-Lib
• Metadata Initiative of German Libraries
• Göttingen Digitization Center (GDZ)
• Mathematical Information Systems
• European EULER Project
• Math-Bib-Net Project

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SSGFI Special Subject Gateways

• Prototypical quality controlled system
• GeoGuide (currently 1,100 records)
• MathGuide (currently 850 records)
• Anglo-American Culture Guides
• History (currently 750 records)
• Literature (currently 300 records)
• Features
• sites are described with extended DC
• among the earliest DC implementations
• technically mature and well documented

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Meta-Lib

• Metadata Initiative of German Libraries
• Göttingen, Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin
• guidelines for the use of metadata in libraries
• Instruments
• MetaGuide
• internet subject gateway to metadata resources
• MetaForm
• database with DC manifestations and other formats

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Other Areas

• Göttingen Digitization Center (GDZ)
• not strictly Dublin Core but heavily involved in
  metadata and XML/RDF standards
• Mathematical Information Systems
• participant in European EULER Project
• Math-Bib-Net
• close to 30,000 DC records for Mathematical
  preprints have already been created by automated
  conversion from the Göttingen library OPAC

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Further Information

• background paper
• http//www2.uni-goettingen.de/papers/dc-6.html
• SSGFI Guides
• http//www.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi
• MetaGuide
• http//www2.uni-goettingen.de/metaguide
• MetaForm
• http//www2.uni-goettingen.de/metaform