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---Diane G. 

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:36:48 -0400, Katherine Stocker 
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>A group of us in North Carolina are working on developing standards for
>descriptive cataloguing for cultural objects. We are using the
>Cataloguing Cultural Objects Draft that the Visual Resources Association
>has developed as a jumping-off point, keeping in mind other types of
>cataloguing standards like MARC and ACR2, but we'd like for this
>metadata standard to be something relatively simple and
>straightforward--rather than the Oxford English Dictionary for metadata,
>we'd like something very readable, that people would actually use.
> 
>As we were working on this last week, it dawned on us that perhaps
>someone else out there was doing something similar and might like to
>share, so before we reinvent the wheel entirely . . . anyone out there?
> 
>One of my colleagues will likely post a similar question to the RCAAM
>listserve, so if you see it twice, you don't have to respond to both of
>us.
> 
>Thanks!
>Katherine
> 
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>Katherine Stocker
>Associate Registrar
>The Mint Museums
>704-337-2020
>fax 704-337-2101
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