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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Mark Diggory <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes it is "DC AND other AP"
>
> Specifically, OAI-PMH requires oai_dc:
>
> http://dspace.mit.edu/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
> http://dspace.mit.edu/oai/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/44628
>
> http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html#MetadataNamespaces
> <snip>
> For purposes of interoperability, repositories must disseminate Dublin
> Core, without any qualification. Therefore, the protocol reserves the
> metadataPrefix `oai_dc', and the URL of a metadata schema for
> unqualified Dublin Core, which is
> http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd. The corresponding XML
> namespace URI is http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/.
> </snip>
>
> Cheers,
> Mark Diggory
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Neil Godfrey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> My understanding is that a simple DC datastream is required for basic
>> OAI-PMH compliance. In addition to that, other metadata schema/application
>> profiles can also be provided and OAI harvested. But that does not negate
>> the ongoing need for the simple DC at the same time. It is a case of DC or
>> DC AND other AP, not DC OR other AP.
>>
>> Is that correct?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Neil Godfrey
>>
>> Singapore
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Mark R. Diggory
> Home Page: http://purl.org/net/mdiggory/homepage
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