 |
 |
It seems to me that the metadata alluded to in this message is straying too far from the goal of Dublin Core as metadata to aid discovery. Surely this is entering the domain of preservation metadata? We must avoid trying to pack everything into DC and remember the Warwick Framework approach (now being instantiated in RDF?) of having several packets of metadata for a resource, where each packet is specialised for a particular purpose. Simon Pockley wrote: > We are particularly interested in ideas for describing the syntax for operating > system requirements. In some cases system information is probably more > important than individual Type formats. > > If our content creators describe the system on which the digital resource was > created. > > <META NAME="DC.Format.System" CONTENT="Windows NT 4.0"> > > they are providing valuable information about the encoding source of the data. > Would this be better expressed as? > > <META NAME="DC.Source.System" CONTENT="Windows NT 4.0"> > > Because we also want to know what is needed to display the resource. > > Example: <META NAME="DC.Format.System" CONTENT="Netscape 2 or better"> > > Any suggestions? > > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------- > Simon Pockley - Cinemedia (http://www.cinemedia.net) > 3 Treasury Place Melbourne Australia [voice] 61 3 96511510 > ([log in to unmask]) > > -- Chris Rusbridge Programme Director, Electronic Libraries Programme The Library, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK Phone 01203 524979 Fax 01203 524981 Email [log in to unmask]