For a networked metadatabsae on sustainable development (= on everything!),
Belgium administration will use an interchange standard based on various
standards but with a priority to Dublin core (and successors) for each field
where it (will) exists.
All kinds of objects (data sources) will be described there, including non
internet objects like institutions, people, CD-ROMs, databases, documents
and museum collections.
It is an example to show that Dublin core can describe much more objects
than solely internet documents.
The field Object Type has been extended in that way. As it can be
duplicated, you can use the same metadata description for an institution and
its home page, giving the attributes (for example):
object_type: institution
object_type: academic
object_type: document
object_type: home page
(other DC elements are the same).
This is mixing apples and oranges, but it works, if the people want to find
an academic institution, or (through) its home page!
Other international bodies are going to this way (using 'object type', not
yet Dublin as such). I will post the complete report (for the multilingual
exchange format based on several metadata standards including Dublin) asap.
We are working on a thesaurus of object types ('documents' beeing one of the
'top terms') and we will post it asap. In the mean time, USMARC is an
excellent source of terms for 'object types'.
For a list of metadata standards, see
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta.html
>A few thoughts on the relationship between the REACH Element Set and the
>Dublin Core....
>
Bruno Kestemont
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