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At 9:17 AM -0500 1997-09-09, Jon Knight wrote: >This appeared on the lis-elib-tech mailing list (a list dealing with >technical issues in the UK Electronic Libraries programme) and I thought >I'd forward it here for your edification. > >Tatty bye, > >Jim'll > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Jon "Jim'll" Knight, Researcher, Sysop and General Dogsbody, Dept. Computer >Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, Leics., ENGLAND. LE11 3TU. >* I've found I now dream in Perl. More worryingly, I enjoy those dreams. * > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 15:04:21 +0100 (BST) >From: Ann Apps <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Dublin Core MetaData > >I have been looking at including Dublin Core Metadata on some of the >SuperJournal HTML files, and have one or two questions. > >1. DC.TYPE >When I looked at the list of possible Dublin Core Standard Resource Types, I >found it difficult to decide which type to choose for my purposes. >'Article' was easy, but what to use for: > (i) Statistics reports generated from application log files. > I have so far used 'Tech Report', but I don't think this is really > exactly right. > (ii) I have HTML files which are like mini-TOCs for an article. Nothing > seems to fit this. I need somthing like 'summary'. >Does anyone know if the list is being updated? (There was a link on the >web page >for DC-ObjectTypes but it didn't seem to go anywhere.) > >Some suggestions for types which don't seem to be on the list at present are: > >Erratum/Addendum/Corrigendum > There is a relationship between this and the article to which it >refers. > Also a time element because it is added post-publication >Summary/Precis/Abstract > There is a relationship between this and the article to which it >refers. >Extract/In Article > There is a relationship between this and the article to which it >refers. >TOC/Index >Data > For eg. statistics, log data, research experimental data (which may be > supplied by an author as supplementary to an article). >Software We had a very thorough discussion of resource types mid-summer (in contrast to the present, in which this list is quiet as a tomb). You can look them up in the metadata archives. So far the best reference, IMHO (but only because I'm from the "hierarchal structure camp") is the following web page: http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Metadata/structuralist.html Good Luck! -------------------------------------------------------- [ Jordan Reiter ] [ mailto:[log in to unmask] ] [ "You can't just say, 'I don't want to get involved.' ] [ The universe got you involved." --Hal Lipset, P.I. ] --------------------------------------------------------