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The Dublin Core (1)

• probably the best tool for providing core resource discovery metadata
• international, cross–domain effort to achieve definition of a core element set
  • defines 15 core elements
  • allows optional qualification of these through addition of thesauri and lookup tables (SCHEME), sub–classification of the elements (SUBELEMENT) and metadata language (LANG)
  • hopes to capture the essence of any resource…
  • …but is it too Core?

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