Dublin Core for Museums: Assumptions

• In applying Dublin Core to museums, we aremaking certain basic assumptions, many of which were tested by CIMI
  • DC is appropriate for use in describing both physical and digital resources
  • DC is easy to learn and simple to use
  • Information can be meaningfully and efficiently extracted from existing museum systems in order to populate DC records
  • the creation of a DC record to describe a museum object is cost–effective, and aids the discovery of resources more than simply allowing access to the underlying Collection Management system might.

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