Arthur Chapman wrote:
> I like the hierarchical nature of Terry Kuhn's suggestions,
> although not necessarily with all his categories.
I'm also in favour of this approach, and it nicely mirrors the syntax of
the TYPE element qualifiers.
> If a product is
> generated on the fly (a GIS map with all sorts of overlays for
> example), it is not created until requested, and is only in
> existence for that particular request. So to index that is
> redundant.
Resources generated on the fly are technically beyond the scope of
Dublin Core anyway, since they are outside the definition of 'Document
Like Objects' agreed at DC3.
T.
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