At 12:57 PM 2/5/98 +0100, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>why
>isn't "Size" one of the basic 15 metadata elements?
Because the main purpose of DC was to define elements that
are useful for resource dscovery. While an indication of the
size of a resource is important for a more general descriptive
schema, we did not think that it compared in importance with
the others as far as resource discovery was concerned.
Regards,
Ron Daniel Jr. voice:+1 505 665 0597
Advanced Computing Lab fax:+1 505 665 4939
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Los Alamos National Lab http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rdaniel
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