Their is a proposal brought forward by several on the list to have *both*
a DESCRIPTION field and a SUBJECT field.
I am strongly opposed to this idea. I feel it does not reflect the
consensus of any of the meetings or a substantial portion of the
attendees, and I feel it would be very hard to defend. It certainly
does not reflect the sense of the Image metadata meeting (where the
idea of renaming SUBJECT to DESCRIPTION originated).
I'll happily modify the verbage describing the DESCRIPTION field to indicate
the breadth of scope of the element. Another way to make it work better
for those who want to distinguish different varieties of DESCRIPTION
might be to propose guidelines for sub-element schemas to fine tune it?
stu
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