Collection Level Description

Contents

1. Introduction

2. What is a Collection?

2.1 A Library Perspective
2.2 An Archival Perspective
2.3 A Museum Perspective
2.4 An Internet/Web Perspective

3. Collection Description

3.1 Conspectus
3.2 ISO 2146
3.3 Z39.50 Profile for Access to Digital Collections
3.4 ISAD(G) - General International Standard Archival Description
3.5 EAD - Encoded Archival Description
3.6 Other archival approaches
3.7 GILS
3.8 WHOIS++ / ROADS
3.9 Centroids
3.10 Dublin Core
3.11 Web Collections

4. Service Description

4.1 LDAP / X.500
4.2 WASRV
4.3 WHOIS++ / ROADS
4.4 Z39.50 Explain

References

Acknowledgements