Bernard Eversberg writes, in part:
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.
I agree with him. The Term DC-Simple is misleading, and I for one will try
to banish it from my vocabulary.
Dublin Core is actually a spectrum rather a collection of discrete entities.
Unqualified Dublin Core anchors one end of this spectrum, corresponding to
what we thought of in Canberra as the minimalist position. The problem is,
few if any DC applications actually stay at this end of the continuum. Most
everyone agrees that some minimal level of qualification is necessary for at
least some of the elements. Qualified Dublin Core extends from that point
as far down the spectrum as an implementation must go in order to achieve
the operational objectives of the application. I suppose the extreme
position is that every value of every element is encoded according to a
formal encoding standard and is selected from a formal authority file or
controlled vocabulary.
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