Dublin Core Open Issues
How Many Elements?
Collapsing AUTHOR/PUBLISHER/OTHER-AGENT into one or two elements has been
proposed
Addition of a simple rights management field would be useful to preclude
downloading of large elements that
What to do about COVERAGE?
Should there be an ABSTRACT element, separate from SUBJECT?
Is it necessary to distinguish between SUBJECT and CONTENT for image
description?
How should RELATION be implemented?
Element Names
Current names for Dublin Core elements are alpha strings that
perpetuate their anglo-centric (and text-centric) origin. While
these names or something very much like them may continue to be the
names by which the elements are discussed popularly, a means of
element name indirection should be put in place soon to allow
non-english language names as well as names that might be tailored
better to specialized domains.
One way to achieve this would be to assign a numeral as the
canonical name for an element.
Element Substructure
The basic application of Dublin Core elements should be as simple
descripters as we would expect them to applied by authors.
More sophisticated Dublin Core applications (by publisher, libraries, and
others) will require means for specifying sub-element structure as well as
extensions. Such substructure needs to be developed and specified formally
and registered.
Possible qualifiers:
SCHEME
TYPE
ROLE
Enumerated values of some elements
FLAGS
Requirements Document for the Dublin Core
Do we need one and why?
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