ROBINA CLAYPHAN

Biography: Robina Clayphan is Bibliographic Standards Coordinator at the British Library. She is responsible for ensuring that the Library adopts a harmonised approach to its support and use of standards for resource
discovery and related collection management functions. She chairs the
Libraries Working Group of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and
represents the British Library on several national and international
standards committees and working groups. Before joining the Library in
1996 she worked in various roles promoting and supporting the use of
Information Technology in the curriculum in higher education.
 

Title: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

Summary: This presentation looks at the use of Dublin Core application profiles at the British Library as part of a resource discovery strategy. It
shows how they have the potential to be used to control the
proliferation of metadata formats in digitisation activity and provide
interoperability at a high level between diverse legacy systems.