Dear DC-Lib metadata engineers,
I'm a simple (dummy?) DCAP implementor, and it comes to me as a bad news
to learn about the forthcoming "divorce" of DC-Lib from MODS.
My AP is made up from these 2 mixed&matched! In fact, for my purposes
(multilingual single-author bibliography/repository) I have included in
my AP even more mods elements than the 3 in DC-Lib...
I understand the theoretical reasons for Robina's proposal, and I myself
have met the difficulty of mods "terms containment", and have such
things as:
mods.originInfo.edition
which are clearly incorrect, say, in contrast - regarding the general
DC structure and principles.
So what to do now for my metadata?
Should I look for "replacement terms" in another namespace? Which?
Should I wait for the creation of new DCMI terms ?
Should I simply convert all mods elements in locally defined elements,
declaring in the "similar to" comment the semantic-only identity with
the "original" mods?
From another point of view, the question comes to me: what about the
entire crosswalk mods-DC, if the mods elements are simply not the same
thing of the DC elements? Is the crosswalk only "semantic", regardless
of the structure underlying the 2 models?
alessandra (bianchi), bergamo (italy)
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