Betsy Skillings wrote:
[snip]
>In particular, the use of asset
> attributes schemas for dynamic web content deployment and measurement.
> Is / should there be a relationship to Dublin Core, and if not, does
> anyone know of another set of standards for e-commerce.... or other work
> being done in ths area?

In my humble opinion, the degree to which DC is applicable would depend
on what materials related to e-commerce you're describing.  DC can be
stretched and extended through both element and value qualifiers
http://purl.org/DC/documents/notes-cox-19990816.htm
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-general/2000-04/0010.html
to apply to a lot of things.  But I still see its primary value being in
descriptive metadata that is relatively bibliographic (i.e. similar to a
library card catalog entry).

If you have documents or publications on your site for which you would
like more descriptive metadata, DC could be a great place to start.  The
descriptive elements can be valuable in both information discovery and
your own internal document/file management.

If you're looking specifically for how to capture metadata related to
products for sale or the transactions involved in e-commerce, however,
DC probably isn't the right set of elements to use.

For DTDs and shemas related to specific types of e-commerce, you may
want to check out:

- XML.Org
http://www.xml.org/ 

- Robin Cover's XML/SGML Pages
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/
(Not available right now, for some reason.)  

- BizTalk
http://www.biztalk.org/

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