The next step was to consider alternatives to the Dublin Core scheme
that would not stray far from best practices, and that could be used by
both institutions, and yet would explain the significance of these
documents with the required level of granularity.
Our final choice was Goddard Core, which was developed by
NASA’s Goddard Museum; it is an extension of Dublin Core and an
ideal bridge between the library world and the space museum
community (Goddard Library, 2005).
Goddard Core differs from unqualified Dublin Core by featuring a
little more granularity. For example, Goddard Core allows one to
utilize the following subdivisions for Dublin Core Element Subject :
Subject.employee
.organization
.missionsProjects
.disciplines
.instrument
.functions
.industries
.uncontrolled
The problem with multiple dates has been anticipated by the
development of these subdivisions:
Date.created
.available
.modified
Using the more granular modifications of the Date field allow us
to handle the more complex documents in the collection that went
through various phases of modification during the AS204
investigation and subsequent creation of the new Block II versions of
the space craft Malfunction Procedures.
One of our intentions with this project has been to use
CONTENTdm as the nexus to our cataloging process; we see this as a
chance to open up the cataloging process to multiple participants both
within Forsyth Library and externally at the KCSC. We are not “rocket