On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Arthur Chapman wrote:
> Mark
>
> I still think you miss the point of whole lots of things on the Web
> that just aren't documents.
>
> We have databases, Geographic Information Systems that produce
> map overlays and a whole host of scientific models produced on the
> fly, etc.
>
> The Web is more than just an electronic version of books and music
> (and games) and it is these that we find are the most difficult to find
> in search engines.
Should Dublin Core be being used to describe these resource types in the first
place? The fact that they're not document-like objects seems to me to be a key
issue. Wasn't there an intent originally to identify other object types that
might be handled through a Dublin Core-like structure? I see this as different
from extending Dublin Core to handle specific types of document-like object and
having a Resource Type hierarchy to categorise document-like objects.
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