Forwarded on behalf of Adrian Cunningham, NAA:
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Coming from the National Archives which issued the Recordkeeping
Metadata Standard, I guess I should respond to
this.
The main point I would like to make is that the Australian Government
Recordkeeping Metadata standard is a different
kind of standard to Dublin Core, which is a Resource Discovery Metadata
standard. Although recordkeeping metadata
needs to support resource discovery (hence the high degree of overlap
between the two standards), it also needs to do
a lot of other recordkeeping type things such as keep an audit trail of
the use history of a particular record. These are
things that are beyond the ambit of resource discovery metadata.
The presence of a Mandate element in both AGLS and the Government
Recordkeeping Metadata standard is a reflection
of the particularities of government - ie. governments do things because
mandates exists that authorise them to do so.
This is a closely related concept to the AGLS Function element in that
it reflects the 'whyness' of government
resources in addition to the 'aboutness' aspects that are well covered
in DC.
cheers,
Adrian Cunningham
National Archives of Australia
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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 14:25:21 -0400
From: Peter Graham <[log in to unmask]>
To: DC-general <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Standard and DC?
> The Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for
> Commonwealth Agencies is now available on the National Archives of
> Australia Website at:
>
> http://www.naa.gov.au/govserv/techpub/rkms/intro.htm
>
This standard describes the metadata that the National Archives of
Australia recommends should be captured in the recordkeeping systems
used by Commonwealth government agencies.
End quote. It would be interesting to see commentary on the DC list
about the similarities and differences as real-world standards get
created, e.g. why the History-Use and Mandate tags needed to be added to
the more conventional DC set and how they wouldn't have fit in the DC
concept; or alternatively what the DC group can learn from this
perceived need. --pg
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