Thanks for your question -- we have been evaluating DC vs Gils for use in
indexing consumer health information and found DC to be much more relevant,
flexible, and applicable.
Patti Brennan
At 8:07 AM -0700 3/17/98, James Douglas Watson wrote:
>Hello met2 listservers:
>I am working under contract for a Canadian federal department. I am
>trying to locate
>information on the pros and cons of the use of Dublin Core vs. GILS for
>the creation
>of metadata to be inserted in the department's web site. I have looked at
>the DC
>home page, the DC-5 web site, and the web site on the latest project by
>the Australian
>government that is using DC.
>I got some excellent listserv responses from another listserv dealing with
>Australian
>metadata.
>
>Am I right in thinking that DC can be mapped to MARC and GILS, but that it
>is not
>as mappable as GILS. Am I also right in thinking that at the moment DC is
>not as
>Z39.50 compliant as GILS. Am I also right in assuming that although GILS
>is a lot
>more complicated, it is superior in terms of being able to describe
>information more
>fully. I am very interested in getting some advice on the nitty gritty
>technical
>differences between the two (please keeping in mind that although I am a
>professional
>librarian, I am not a technical expert?) Also, it seems to me that with
>the growth
>of the WWW that DC seems to be taking off while my supervisor has been
>hearing that
>GILS is dying in the U.S. Has anyone heard about the prospects for GILS
>in the U.S.
>
>
>Your assistance is greatly appreciated,
>James Watson
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