CORC and Collaborative Internet Resource Description: A New Partnership for Technical Services, Collection Development and Public Services

SUMMARY. The author describes the “CORC at Cornell” project, undertaken by a small cross-functional team. Using CORC and Dublin Core (DC) as a framework, the team explored a distributed model for Internet resource description, in which catalogers, selectors, and reference specialists participated in producing DC and MARC metadata for the library’s OPAC and gateway. After describing the experimental workflow that was developed and tested in the project, the author employs systems analysis techniques to model and discuss the Internet resource description process. The findings indicate that distributed resource description is both feasible and beneficial, and that staff from various functional areas can readily use DC and CORC. The article concludes with a discussion of issues that warrant further research. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-342-9678, E-mail address: < getinfo@haworthpressinc,com > Website: < https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href=" https://www.HaworthPress.com ."> https://www.HaworthPress.com . >]