DC-assist
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcassist/
is a small, flexible help utility for metadata applications and is
intended to complement the help pages embedded within existing software.
Start DC-assist up once at the beginning of your session for quick and
easy access to a set of help pages that provide:
- element and qualifier definitions,
- comments,
- data entry guidelines (not yet available),
- examples,
- links to further information.
DC-assist can be configured for local use using a configuration file. In
the future, it will be enhanced so that as much information as possible
will be extracted from an 'application profile' stored in a metadata
registry (such as the one being developed by the SCHEMAS project[1]),
directly from RDF schema definition files, or from some combination of
both.
The default DC-assist configuration is based on the elements defined in
the 'Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description'
and the qualifiers defined in the 'Dublin Core Qualifiers'. This
configuration also contains around 100 examples (mainly taken from
RFC-2731).
[1] http://www.schemas-forum.org/
Andy
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