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Sebastian Hammer wrote about the GILS profile: >However, it contains an "availability" element, which is specifically >intended to reference practically any type of resource - online >document or database; offline printed document; organisation or >individual person. Of course, the same resource can be available in >multiple forms, and at varying cost. The Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) also wanted to use a single set of metadata elements for facilitating discovery of both electronic and physical resources. They decided to extend Dublin Core with an "availability" element similar to the GILS element. A report from December 1997 is available at: <http://www.naa.gov.au/govserv/techpub/agls/aglsfinal.html> A more detailed report, giving semantics and examples for AGLS will be published "real soon now". Nigel Ward--------------------------------------------------------------- Research Data Network CRC http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/staff/nw DSTC Pty Ltd, Gehrmann Laboratories phone/fax: +61 7 3365 4310/11 University of Queensland, 4072, AUSTRALIA email: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------------