I thought it might help some to see the ISBD document that this formalizes. Unfortunately, the ISBD document is not online (there is a book for purchase, only). The wikipedia article is unfortunately brief: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Bibliographic_Description I found a version of the ISBD document that I had on my computer which I believe is a bit preliminary to the printed version. I have placed it online at: http://kcoyle.net/temp/isbd2007.pdf I hope this isn't an act of piracy, but I can't see how we can discuss the AP without seeing what it is an AP of. The aspects of ISBD that are key to our discussion are the 8 "areas" and their elements. You can get a quick overview of these on pages 21 and 22 (which may be sufficient for our discussion). kc On 5/17/12 3:44 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > Colleagues > > > The working draft of the description set profile (DSP) for the > International Standard Bibliographic Description has been placed on the > DCMI wiki to inform the DCMI Architecture Forum's discussions on the Dublin > Core abstract model and application profile: > > > http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCAM_Revision_ISBD_DSP > <http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCAM_Revision_ISBD_DSP> > > > A DSP is the central component of a DC application profile. > > > Please send any comments or queries to the list. > > > Cheers > > > Gordon > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet