> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 08:58:51 -0700
> From: "Ron Daniel Jr." <[log in to unmask]>
>
> 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.
I aggree with Ron's report that by rough consensus Size was not important
enough to be included in the core elements. Personally, however, I always
believed this to be a flaw.
It's too late to add it now, but we can look forward to its being an
early test case for whatever extension mechanism we concoct.
-John
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