The single most important asset of the Dublin Core is the consensus
that has been developed around it. No one should imagine that that
consensus will be discarded easily or lightly.
The User Guide group has taken on the very difficult task of actually trying
to instruct the uninitiated in how to apply these mythical elements we have
elaborated in our cider-soaked, late night epiphanies. They are to be
forgiven
the notion that a bit of reality would so easily sway us from our vision.
At the same time, the group must be willing to examine carefully and debate
the merits of the User Guide objections. And just to muddy the waters, we
have
just concluded a day and a half workshop here in Dublin on Metadata for
images.
It will surprise no one on this list that the Dublin Core figured
prominently in
the deliberations (and conclusions). Stay tuned for further developments.
I am off next week to the Bonn metadata meeting, and thence to the NordInfo
meeting in Lund, at both of which meetings I expect further churning of our
collective agenda. Expect another meeting in the Spring, and give some
thought to the agenda we should develop for that meeting.
stu
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