DCMI and OAI are pleased to announce an XML schema for unqualified DC
metadata that facilitates the declaration of modular metadata components.
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and the Open Archives Initiative have
been cooperating on metadata issues for some time. Unqualified DC metadata
is the default metadata set used in the OAI
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, intended to promote cross-domain
interoperability. Other, domain-specific sets are encouraged as well, as
envisaged in the modular metadata framework that both communitites have been
striving for.
This schema has been developed for use with the OAI Protocol, and has been
discussed at length in the DC-Architecture working group. It is expected
that the schema will be of use for other applications as well, and will be
hosted on the DCMI Website and maintained by representatives of both groups.
This development is an important landmark in the development of web-based
metadata services, reflecting as it does the convergence of community
consensus and the development of enabling infrastructure to support that
consensus.
The schema is available at:
http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/simpledc20020312.xsd
This and other schemas will be linked and described for readers at
http://dublincore.org/schemas/
More information on the Open Archives Initiative is available at:
http://www.openarchives.org
Stuart Weibel
Executive Director
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
OCLC Office of Research
Herbert Van de Sompel
Open Archives Initiative Executive
Digital Library Research & Prototyping
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research Library
Carl Lagoze
Open Archives Initiative Executive
Computing and Information Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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