Introducing the 1:1 Principle

• The broader Dublin Core community is tackling some of the problems relevant to museums
• Their work on the ‘1:1 Principle’ is especially useful in resolving museum issues over original versus surrogate and item versus collection:
  • each Dublin Core ‘record’ should describe only one resource, whether surrogate or original. Associated resources should be linked together by means of the Relation element in Dublin Core.

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