Re: Bibliographic Metadata for Gutenberg

Hi Murray, et al.

The DLib project with which I'm involved at the U. of Illinois has developed a
metadata DTD based on RDF, Dublin Core, and some custom elements.  It is
primarily focused on scientific/technical journal articles, but might provide a
springboard to a more generic DTD.

We have also been experimenting with the ISO 11179 standard for describing
metadata (meta-meta-data :-).  You can see some of our documentation at
http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/iso11179/idli.asp.  We also have a DTD for our
scheme, which I could make available, if there is interest.  We also have XSL
style sheets for transforming the markup to HTML for viewing extended
citations.

Comments, questions, criticisms welcome.

Tom
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Thomas G. Habing
  mailto:habing(at)acm.org
  mailto:thabing(at)uiuc.edu


Murray Altheim wrote:

> Frank talked in Amsterdam last week on a panel about metadata, and I
> just finished having a conversation with Norm Walsh about bibliographic
> metadata as a separate component in DocBook. The prototype DTDs I've been
> playing with have a blank module for standardized metadata, and I'm
> thinking it might be a really good idea to start an OASIS technical
> committee on the subject, with the goal being a simple grammar in the
> form of a DTD module to provide all Gutenberg texts with a markup to
> contain such content. I'm guessing we'd probably want to use some form
> of Dublin Core Element Set as a basis, rather than reinvent the wheel.
>
> Does anybody have any difficulties with starting an OASIS TC to formalize
> this effort? Would anyone like to participate? I have gotten the okay from
> my management to do so, so we could get this ball arollin' fairly quickly
> since we have 1. a basis in Dublin Core, and 2. a strong need to provide
> the Gutenberg Project DTDs with such a product.
>
> I'm also involved with the topic map activity, so I might be able to
> provide liaison with that work. I think we might also get Norm involved,
> which would be great since this might reflect back into DocBook. Dunno,
> though, since he's pretty busy.
>
> Opinions, support, flames, empty gum wrappers, etc. solicited...
>
> Murray
>
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