DC-2005: Vocabularies in Practice, September 2005, Madrid, Spain Dublin Core for an African context Pat Liebetrau Digital Imaging South Africa (DISA) Durban South Africa

DC-2005: Vocabularies in Practice, September 2005, Madrid, Spain Digital Imaging South Africa First national collaborative digital project in South Africa collaboration - national and regional partners transformation process socio-political material scholarly and research resources

DC-2005: Vocabularies in Practice, September 2005, Madrid, Spain Challenges capacity building digital skills – libraries and archives sustainability ensuring high standards infrastructure

DC-2005: Vocabularies in Practice, September 2005, Madrid, Spain Phase 1 - journals distributed scanning shortage of institutional staff limited capacity digital skills quality control

DC-2005: Vocabularies in Practice, September 2005, Madrid, Spain Phase 2 – archival material distributed metadata creation library and information management skills transference of digital skills English language first language standardisation partner commitment

DC-2005: Vocabularies in Practice, September 2005, Madrid, Spain Aim keep it simple use an international metadata standard xml open source code minimise training required minimise input errors standardise input

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DC-2005: Vocabularies in Practice, September 2005, Madrid, Spain Conclusions work in progress wide ranging applicability institutional repositories scholars students researchers minimal training required standardisation ensured– global and local extensible portable

DC-2005: Vocabularies in Practice, September 2005, Madrid, Spain Web site: contact: Acknowledgments and thanks: Colleen Goldsworthy - DISA Alex Lyashok – Aluka