Diane,
I don't think that documentation addresses (what I understood to be) Robina's questions though. (i.e. what are the pros and cons of using a "local"/"application-specific" syntactic representation for a DC description set? and is there a short cut for "saying" "my DCAP references this bundle of properties"?)
Pete
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From: DCMI Architecture Forum on behalf of Diane I. Hillmann
Sent: Wed 5/23/2007 6:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Use of MARC Relator Codes
Robina:
There is extensive documentation on how to do this properly that was worked out when we added the capability to use MARC Relators. These are all in "Using Dublin Core" in a separate appendix: http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/appendix_roles.shtml
There's really no reason to reinvent this wheel, seems to me.
Diane
Dear Architecture Forum,
This is a query from The European Library (TEL) about the use of MARC
Relator codes in a DC description.
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html
TEL has two DC application profiles - one for objects and one for
collections. We would like to be able to use all the MARC relator codes
in the profiles but we are uncertain about how best to encode them in
XML. Our preferred way is to use DC Contributor with the MARC relator
code as an attribute. Is this acceptable as a method of encoding? The
alternative, as we see it, is to use the MARC relator codes directly as
terms which presumably means we have to declare them all in the
application profiles. Either way may have implications that we are not
entirely clear about, especially for interoperability.
Regards,
Robina Clayphan
Christine Frodl
The European Library Metadata Working Group
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