Carl writes:
> - What are the types of resources we wish to describe with the DC - textual documents? HTML documents? images and text? all networked documents? simple (one per file) documents? complex (many files/many locations) documents?
Objects. Some may be totally passive (documents) and others may be
active. Just because I don't lie around all day waiting to be read
doesn't mean that I shouldn't be describable.
> - What is the community of content providers that we are aiming at? professional catalogers? web-masters? casual authors?
All of the above, plus some others that we probably haven't foreseen.
How could cataloguers of 5 years ago have foreseen the need for
resource description by the professional class called webmasters?
> - How are these content providers/creators going to create Dublin Core records? manually? tools? second-party additions?
All of the above, as well as through total automation.
> - What are the types of tools do we expect will be "users" of the Dublin Core? Lycos/Alta-Vista like? on-line catalogues?
All of the above, plus a whole bunch more. mostly not written or
designed yet.
> - Where do we see the Dublin Core fitting in to the general Information Discovery/domain-specific searching/browsing/serendipity/retrieval process?
Everywhere.
> - How does the Dublin Core relate to other metadata sets? Is it a summarization of other sets of metadata? Which sets of metadata does it summarize?
Containment, no, and relatively few, respectively.
> Feel free to add to this list or argue with it. But we need to have firm answers to these questions to properly engineer this thing. With all due respects to Stu's consensus-building motivations, it simply is not sufficient as we try to really create something that is useful to the community and will have some lasting value.
It's those last 2 words that make it hard.
Mark
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