With respect to Simon Pockley's question on software operating
systems as part of metadata description (appended):
You might want to have a look at the Open Software Description
Format (OSD)
http://www.sil.org/sgml/xml.html#xml-osd
and also, the (very) draft specification for XSA - XML
Software Autoupdate
http://www.sil.org/sgml/xsaAnn980806.html
I have say, though (without having followed the DC metadata
discussions carefully) that these kinds of questions create a
lot of doubt/skepticism in me about the fundamental distinction
between "data" and "metadata", as I assume is taken for granted
in this community. And: do you really want to (be able to)
model everything like this in an empty <META> element?
In any case, it seems obvious to me that the beginning point
for designs that model (such things as) "operating system
software (characteristics)" inside META tags needs to be domain
expertise. Are these designs typically farmed out, or do the
librarians make them up? Or both?
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Simon said:
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We are particularly interested in ideas for describing the syntax for operating
system requirements. In some cases system information is probably more
important than individual Type formats.
If our content creators describe the system on which the digital resource was
created.
<META NAME="DC.Format.System" CONTENT="Windows NT 4.0">
they are providing valuable information about the encoding source of the data.
Would this be better expressed as?
<META NAME="DC.Source.System" CONTENT="Windows NT 4.0">
Because we also want to know what is needed to display the resource.
Example: <META NAME="DC.Format.System" CONTENT="Netscape 2 or better">
Any suggestions?
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