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Hi Daphne, Tony and all, I just wanted to reply and say that the Technical Advisory service have noted this message, we're not just ignoring it ...honest! I'm sure you all realise that it is a fairly complicated area and so we want to make sure we give the right answer to you all. I have actually passed this message on to the UKOLN Collection Description Focus who has said that they will get an answer back to the list by Monday. With regard to OAI, NOF and the Technical Advisory service are working on a paper for projects to be issued in the near future. In the meantime I just want to reiterate that projects should concentrate on creating rich metadata for their item level resources. If this metadata is held in a CMS or database there will be ways that it can be mapped to Dublin Core for use by OAI. I'd also agree with Daphne's comment that because DC is for resource discovery there is not a huge amount of point in putting it in the HTML unless these are static pages. Further resources on metadata area's are available from the UKOLN site: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/ Regards Marieke ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles, Daphne To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:20 AM Subject: Re: RSLP, RDF and Dublin Core All I note nobody from NOF has yet responded on the list to Tony's question, although this is an issue which is likely to affect most projects. Having recorded the information at item level to create Dublin core we are wondering how to use it. I understand that NOF are now steering us towards OAI for metadata, otherwise there seems to be very little we can do with it! OAI will represent a significant investment for many of the smaller projects and it may be difficult to include it in contracts which have already been awarded. Since Dublin core is for resource discovery there is no point in putting it in the HTML unless these are static pages; for pages generated dynamically the resource has by definition already been discovered. Daphne Charles English Heritage -----Original Message----- From: Tony Brindle [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 22 April 2002 07:47 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: RSLP, RDF and Dublin Core Dear all, I wonder if someone can help explain to me the connections between RSLP, RDF and Dublin Core. As I understand it, RSLP is a collection schema (made up of other schemas e.g. Dublin Core, vCard etc). RDF is an XML based view of the schema. Now when collections are made available to the public via the internet, we need to generate METADATA tags for the collections. NOF state that we should use Dublin Core, but RSLP uses other schemas in addition. How are these to be portrayed? Do I simple add METADATA like <meta name="dc.language" scheme="iso639-2" content="eng" /> <meta name="dc:subject" content="stuff stuff" /> <meta name="cld:agentName" content="Tony" /> <meta name="cld:objectName" content="stuff stuff" /> <meta name="cld.strength" content="stuff stuff" /> Or am I'm completly misunderstanding this. Thanks for any help Tony Brindle