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>Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 15:04:21 +0100 (BST)
>From: Ann Apps <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Dublin Core MetaData
>
>I have been looking at including Dublin Core Metadata on some of the
>SuperJournal HTML files, and have one or two questions.
>
>1. DC.TYPE
>When I looked at the list of possible Dublin Core Standard Resource Types, I
>found it difficult to decide which type to choose for my purposes.
>'Article' was easy, but what to use for:
> (i) Statistics reports generated from application log files.
> I have so far used 'Tech Report', but I don't think this is really
> exactly right.
> (ii) I have HTML files which are like mini-TOCs for an article. Nothing
> seems to fit this. I need somthing like 'summary'.
>Does anyone know if the list is being updated? (There was a link on the
>web page
>for DC-ObjectTypes but it didn't seem to go anywhere.)
We had a very thorough discussion of resource types mid-summer (in contrast
to the present, in which this list is quiet as a tomb). You can look them
up in the metadata archives. So far the best reference, IMHO (but only
because I'm from the "hierarchal structure camp") is the following web page:
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Metadata/structuralist.html
Good Luck!
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