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Simon Cox wrote (Mon Jul 27) >Here's an extended example (D.C. description of Simon Cox) Our challenge at the moment is to manage tens of thousands of off-line physical (analogue) objects (films & videos) in an [on-line] environment. The simplest method of doing this on-line (compatible with having content creators make metadata at the point of creation) is to create a digital surrogate. A digital surrogate can be almost any form of description (a scanned image, a recorded sound, a number or just a free text description). It stands in for the off-line resource and takes up an on-line place holder position. Rather than refer to `physical object' in the list of D.C. Types, would it not be more flexible to use instead, the term `surrogate' to stand in for anything that cannot itself exist on-line? As per Simon Cox's 3rd example: DC.Title="About Simon Cox" DC.Identifier="http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/SimonCox/" DC.Type="surrogate" DC.Format="text/html 4701B" DC.Creator="Cox, Simon" DC.Date="1998-05-29" DC.Subject="person, professional activities" DC.Description="Web page about Simon Cox" DC.Relation="IsBasedOn Simon Cox the person SSN=051-66-9762" -------------------------------------------------- Simon Pockley - Cinemedia (http://www.cinemedia.net) 3 Treasury Place Melbourne Australia [voice] 61 3 96511510 ([log in to unmask])