Metadata Committee
March 3, 2008

*Introduction of new member

* NIH Discussion

* Overview of current issues and recent activities

* ETDs.  Currently many theses and dissertations are funded by NIH.  Do these need to be incorporated into NIH proceses

* Review of the charge and future direction of the committee

 

Committee charge established.

ETD : abstracts in Acorn record

Recommendation to include abstracts.

 

* Update on the progress of the Robert Penn Warren project

April 4th.  Conference.

Pete: A collection of sound files of interviews that RPW did with various civil rights leaders. 1964-65

Records, Links to sound files. 

Biographies of participants.

Abstracts of interviews

Subject heading.

Research for “Who speaks for the Negros”
15 records totally finished.
Most sound files came from Yale.

Kentucky: link to interviews on their server
Kentucky has transcripts for their interviews.

Conference: “We Speak for Ourselves” James Lawson, Angela Davis.


*Discussion of the recent paper by Thomas Mann on the LC Working Group on Bibliographic Control
 (http://www.guild2910.org/WorkingGrpResponse2008.pdf)