Hi all, I don't know the extent of the museum technologist community's experimentation with XForms in the creation of metadata, but in the research library community, there is an increasingly strong demand for tools used in the creation of MODS, METS, VRA Core, and EAD files. I am currently working on an EAD editor (http://code.google.com/p/eaditor/), dabbled with a VRA Core editor, and have contemplated starting work on a CDWA editor. I firmly believe that XForms applications represent the future of metadata creation, with database-related options eventually fading away, for a wide variety of reasons.
I am forwarding this email from code4lib. I encourage technologists and museum professionals that have a vested interest in metadata creation to subscribe to the listserv described in the email below. I am personally interested in the adaptation of common library software tools to museums and other cultural heritage institutions, so I think that museum professionals should play a role in engaging in a dialog with library professionals in developing these sorts of tools. Ethan Gruber University of Virginia Library ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [Your Name] <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:48 PM Subject: [CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries To: CODE4LIB at listserv.nd.edu There's been some interest lately on this list in the use of W3C XForms for library metadata (e.g. MODS, EAD, VRA Core...). Several institutions have committed in one degree or another to their use, and many more are investigating the possibility. To provide a venue for more specific discussion (implementations, code sharing, etc.) I've created a list at: https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/xforms4lib I hope we can generate some useful discussion there, and perhaps even some partnership-building. As my colleague Ethan Gruber has pointed out to me, there are at least four or five institutions implementing MODS editors alone. It would seem that there's a lot of room to help each other. --- A. Soroka Digital Research and Scholarship R & D the University of Virginia Library
