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Michael, Replying with the benefit of reading Dennis Meissner's message, it would seem that Dublin Core is more appropriately applied to the finding aid itself. Here are some of my related questions: Is there any consensus in practice regarding mapping or would anybody even argue that there's a need for consensus here? If Dublin Core is used only within <eadheader> the resulting "record" seems mighty brief. If this metadata is primarily for web retrieval of some sort does the metadata match the needs for this sort of retrieval (searching, harvesting). I have seen some finding aids represented online in HTML rendering using the standard frames layout. Some institutions place meta tags mapped to Dublin Core within the HTML coding for the home frame page. The set of Dublin Core elements are usually more inclusive in these cases, sometimes including indexing terms and other metadata outside the scope of <eadheader>. In cases where I am able to see the originating XML document I don't see Dublin Core mapping so I want to know if the coding is being done by hand on the frame.html page or if it is being generated in some way from the XML document. And, on this same issue, is this a short term fix if the intention is to be able to mount our XML documents directly on the Web in the future when browser capabilities allow? How do you see Dublin Core mapping within finding aids being utilized? John --On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:48 PM -0600 "Fox, Michael" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The question raised regarding mapping turns on another question. In > your Dublin Core record, are you describing the finding aid (if so map to > <eadheader>) or are you describing the collection (if so map to <ead> or, > more precisely, to <archdesc> elements)? > > Michael Fox John Bewley Music Library University at Buffalo, The State University of New York 716 645-2924 Ext. 1446