NDLTD Union Collection User Services

NDLTD Union Collection User Services

Edward Alan Fox

This presentation was for the standards meeting at ETD 2001. It discusses the union catalog project, focusing on user services. It highlights aims, goals, and then contrasts federated search with harvesting. It summarizes the key elements of the implementation plan, including harvesting, metadata definition, name authority control, and the union collection/services. In includes MARC and ETD-MS examples, along with RDF and a Korean record. It concludes by discussing a central registry.

2001