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Assessing the Qualifiers

• ‘optional’ extensibility of SCHEME and SUBELEMENT found to be essential. LANG useful in certain cases
  • every use of a SCHEME or SUBELEMENT increases Dublin Core’s value to one discipline, and reduces interoperability with the others
  • many SCHEMEs and SUBELEMENTs identified in workshop reports
    • integrated report attempts to aggregate these, moving back towards interoperable generalisations
    • where is middle ground between value to one discipline and the over–reaching goal of interoperability?

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