Debbie Campbell wrote:
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> However, if I go to the WWW8 home page at www8.org
> this would not be classified itself as an
> event, rather as text. Therefore, do I have to encode a separate instance of
> metadata, say as a digital surrogate, to represent the conference itself,
> with a link to the conference's homepage ?
Yes - a digital surrogate. The home page is not the conference.
> Also, how is a virtual exhibition resolved ? The NLA has held a live
> exhibition which is now available on the Web, at
> http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html.
> Would I have to create 2 instances of metadata to describe it or can I just
> repeat the type element ?
In this case, I'd go for the latter. I think the resource
is actually both. And I'm strongly in favour of repeating
elements quite liberally to assist in discovery.
It doesn't ask much of the software.
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