Frederic and others,
The Australian Government Locator Service metadata standards now include an
element for Audience. (Follow links from http://www.naa.gov.au.) However I
suspect that most organisations will want to use their own scheme for this
element - as soon as schemes are merged, you tend to get something
unwieldy.
It is important to decide whether you want to use Audience mainly for
display purposes or for search purposes. If for display purposes, then you
can use uncontrolled text and this could go into the description element.
For search purposes, I think it is vital to have a short controlled list of
terms, and I think a separate element is best.
In the case of our HealthInsite gateway (currently under development,
information is at http://www.healthinsite.gov.au), we are using the
audience element with a very short scheme (the only values allowed are:
adult, youth, child). This element will be used in the navigation and
search facilities on the site. You can see that very few other
organisations would want to use this particular scheme! If resources are
intended for other particular audiences (eg physicians, people with
disabilites), we indicate it in the description element if it seems
important.
Regards, Prue
Prue Deacon
HealthInsite Editorial Team
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care (Australia)
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"Childress,Eric" <[log in to unmask]> on 28/09/99 00:58:21
To: "'WRONECKI Frederic BD/DIN'" <[log in to unmask]>,
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cc: (bcc: Prue Deacon/NHMRC/Health)
Subject: RE: Use of DC.Coverage
Frederick,
The use of dc:Coverage for audience was suggested and rejected in a
previous round of definition crafting. My suggestion is dc:Description,
the
rationale being that target audience is perhaps most closely a part of a
description of the resource.
Several projects including GEM http://www.thegateway.org/ have
defined audience as an extension to the Dublin Core set.
Eric Childress
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From: WRONECKI Frederic BD/DIN
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Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 10:02 AM
To: dc-general
Subject: Use of DC.Coverage
Hello everybody,
In a corporate environment, a technical document may target specific
populations : sales reps or engineers or accountants, etc.
I'm trying to find out which DC.element, if any, would hold this target
information. It seems to me that DC.Coverage is appropriate, since the
Reference Description reads :
"Coverage will typically include spatial location (a place name or
geographic
coordinates), temporal period (a period label, date, or date range) or
jurisdiction (such as a named administrative entity)."
The second question is then : is there a qualifier for this ?
Thanks for any insight.
Frederic Wronecki
France Telecom, Paris, France
(writing on behalf of myself, not of my company)
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