SURVEY OF COLLECTION-LEVEL DESCRIPTION ACTIVITY Collection Description Focus, based at UKOLN, and CIMI, the consortium of cultural heritage institutions, are collaborating in a survey of activity in the area of collection-level description. Here, the term "collection" is intended in a very general sense, to mean any aggregation of items, physical or digital. The aim of this survey is to enable us to understand the range of current activity, the descriptive standards in use and the way those standards are being deployed in practice, and to identify areas where further work is required. If your organisation or project is engaged in resource description at collection-level, we would be very grateful if you would consider completing our questionnaire, which is available at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/questionnaire/ both as an HTML form and as a Microsoft Word document. The information may be used by CD Focus and/or CIMI as the basis of analyses that appear in reports and publications, but references to individuals, institutions or projects will not be made without permission. If you supply contact details, CD Focus and/or CIMI may contact you to discuss your work further. We will summarise the results of the survey on the CD Focus website and will notify this list when that summary is available. Note: A small number of projects already completed a trial version of this questionnaire in July/August, and those responses will automatically be incorporated within this survey. Thank you for your help. Regards, Pete Johnston ------- Pete Johnston Collection Description Focus UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK tel: +44 (0)1225 323619 fax: +44 (0)1225 826838 mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/