Thanks, this certainly helps.
Regards
David
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Powell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2008 6:31 PM
To: David Bromage; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Identifying metadata and resource character sets
David,
I think that character set info can be supplied as part of the MIME
type, which is a valid value for dc:format, e.g.
text/html; charset=EUC-JP
Andy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: General DCMI discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Bromage
> Sent: 25 August 2008 08:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Identifying metadata and resource character sets
>
> This is a rather curly query raised with me by a group involved mainly
> with geospatial metadata. ISO 19115 and its variants have elements
> (properties) to describe the character set of both the metadata and
> the described resource. UTF-8 is the default but it is often necessary
> to identify resources in other character sets.
>
> Has DC ever considered or any application profile adopted a property
> (perhaps a refinement of format) to describe the character set of a
> resource?
>
> Regards
> David
>
>
> David Bromage
> Policy and Strategic Projects
> Government Information Management Branch
>
> National Archives of Australia
> PO Box 7425
> Canberra Business Centre ACT 2610
>
> T (02) 6212 3731 F (02) 6212 3989 M 0418 394 778
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