Renato,
I have had a play with Reggie and it is very impressive.
One issue concerns me, though. Reggie makes no distinction between aspects
of DC which have been agreed by the DC community (ie unqualified DC) and
aspects about which there is currently no agreement within the DC community
(ie qualified DC). This is likely to lead to a lot of controversy and
confusion.
When converting qualified DC to RDF, Reggie generates RDF which differs
greatly from the approach taken by the DC Data Model WG. I fear that this
may substantially hinder the adoption of both DC and RDF.
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> The DSTC is pleased to announce the availability of a
> java-based metadata creation tool:
>
> Reggie - The Metadata Editor
> http://metadata.net
>
> Key features:
>
> - Registry-based metadata creation tool
> - Supports Dublin Core in 5 languages
> - Supports GILS, ANZLIC, EDNA, AGLS
> - Supports HTML META tags (V3.2 and V4.0)
> - Supports RDF
> - Online help
>
> The aim of the Reggie Metadata Editor is to enable the easy
> creation of various forms of metadata with the one flexible program.
> The Reggie Metadata Editor uses a schema file to read in the details
> of all the elements in a set, their characteristics and descriptions.
> To create metadata based on a different element set or different language,
> one has simply to create a new schema file.
>
> Currently supported schemas include:
> - Dublin Core (english, german, french, italian, portuguese)
> - US Government Information Locator Service
> - Australian New Zealand Land Information Council
> - Education Network Australia
> - Australian Government Locator Service
>
> As it stands, the Reggie applet can export metadata using the HTML 3.2
> standard, the HTML 4.0 standard and the RDF (Resource Description Framework)
> formats.
>
> The Reggie applet works best on the Version 4 browsers from Netscape and
> Microsoft.
>
> To try Reggie, please visit:
>
> http://metadata.net
>
> We would appreciate any and all feedback on Reggie, and
> support additional metadata schemas.
>
>
> Cheers... Renato
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