Dublin Core and the museum community
- Challenges for museums
- Emphasis on attributes of the physical object (artefact)
- Need to associate the physical object with persons, places and events
- Need to account for collections
- Need to account for surrogates such as photographs
- Historical lack of content standards
- Assumptions regarding DC
- DC is useful to describe artefacts and associated information resources in the museum community
- DC is simple to use and learn
- Adequate technical infrastructure exists to support use of resource discovery