You can put ANY information that does not fit anywhere
else in DC.Description.
>I'm nervous about using DC.Description as some sort of dump-bin. I thought
Dublin
Core was only ever supposed to be a minimal set and that metadata that is
not
sufficiently covered by the 15 tags could be put into local extensions.
These local
extensions do not have to be subsets of any of the DC set (although of
course if they
stand outside it they will not be picked up by DC harvesters). Take the GEM
metadata
set - they have local extensions such as GEM.grade, GEM.audience,
GEM.pedagogy, GEM.quality,
GEM.standards, all to help identify relevant educational levels, I guess.
These tags are
additional to the DC tags, not included within them (as far as I can tell).
>In STM journals, we are likely to regard an author's affiliation as
significant metadata.
Dublin Core has specifically stated that affiliation is *not* to be
regarded as equivalent to
DC.Creator.PersonalName.Address (since this is the author's personal
address, not his or her
place of work), and suggested that this tag should be dealt with as a
local extension. (I am lobbying for an authoritative body such as the
International STM
group to endorse a set of local extensions optimised for STM journals.)
>Why advocate local extensions if you can just shove anything that doesn't
fit into
DC.Description?
>DC needs to be clear between its role as a minimal data set and the
tendency to stretch
it to become all-encompassing. IMHO, it can't do both.
>Cliff Morgan
>Publishing Technologies Director
>John Wiley & Sons Ltd
>Chichester, UK
The Australian Government Locator Service added "Function"
to the DC set for reasons including this one.
Lars Eilebrecht wrote:
>
> I'm wondering what would be best way to specify a
> target group rsp. audience for a resource via (qualified) DC?
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