Thomas Hofmann writes
>
> BUT, I think it is good that some has brought up the subject. It
> shows that some people (camp1) would like see DC as the "swiss army
> knife" of data standards.
>
That misconception certainly exists. My suggestion: at least rename "DC
simple" into "DC plain", which is what it actually is. For it neither makes
resource discovery simple nor metadata production easy. The word "simple"
has a connotation of "easy" which in this case is misleading.
Cheers, B.E.
Bernhard Eversberg
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D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836
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