> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:30:13 -0800
> From: [log in to unmask] (Joyce Mcmullin)
>
> On the whole, I found John Kunze's "Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in
> HTML" easy to follow and even easier to implement and I am in the
> process of completing implementation on a number of my library's web
> pages using this document as a guide. Thank you.
Joyce,
I'm glad you found it helpful, but please bear in mind that this is a
draft document that is not yet reviewed to the point where it may be
considered standard practice.
> There are two points which stand out.
>
> 1) Use of the ADMIN prefix.
>
> Examples elsewhere (*not* in "Encoding Dublin Core...") of Dublin Core
> suggest the following as the first line implementing Dublin Core in
> <HEAD>:
>
> <META NAME="package" CONTENT="(TYPE=begin)Dublin Core">
>
> with a similar line as the last line of the code sequence. Does this
The practice you describe is no longer recommended. I don't recall
where it appeared, but it has been replaced by the LINK tag mechanism
described in the "DC in HTML" draft.
> not present an anomaly for the use of the ADMIN core prefix within a
> package which is described as Dublin Core? The example provided in
There is no longer any anomaly because the LINK tag mechanism simply
identifies each element set that has a prefix appearing in the resource
description.
> ... could the matter, in this
> example, be handled by way of extension: <META NAME="DC.Creator.Email"
> CONTENT="..."> and so on, to include any number of points of contact
> such as: MailingAddress; TelephoneNumber, etc?
No. That style of extension was considered (at length) and dropped.
>
> 2) DC.Type CONTENT
>
> What struck me as being less a controlled vocabulary than I had
> anticipated were the CONTENT examples which were provided for DC.Type.
> This led me to describe some of our digital resources as: "index,"
> "directory," "finding aid," "photographic exhibition," and
> "exhibition."
Work on extending Type vocabularies is ongoing. The DCT1 Type list
at http://www.loc.gov/marc/typelist.html will be updated to reflect
the DC Type working group's progress. You may contact them if you
wish to get involved.
Thanks for the comments,
-John
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