Sebastian Hammer wrote about the GILS profile:
>However, it contains an "availability" element, which is specifically
>intended to reference practically any type of resource - online
>document or database; offline printed document; organisation or
>individual person. Of course, the same resource can be available in
>multiple forms, and at varying cost.
The Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) also wanted to use a
single set of metadata elements for facilitating discovery of both
electronic and physical resources. They decided to extend Dublin Core
with an "availability" element similar to the GILS element.
A report from December 1997 is available at:
<http://www.naa.gov.au/govserv/techpub/agls/aglsfinal.html>
A more detailed report, giving semantics and examples for AGLS will be
published "real soon now".
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