Title :
Versioning the Dublin Core across multiple languages and over time
Author :
Sugimoto, Shigeo ; Baker, Thomas ; Nagamori, Mitsuharu ; Sakaguchi, Tetsuo ; Tabata, Koichi
Abstract :
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is currently designing and implementing a registry for managing its official element and qualifier definitions over time and in multiple languages. Three aspects of this registry must be versioned: the schema that describes the elements and qualifiers, which may be accessed by software or Web agents; sets of elements and qualifiers as a whole, for which some software vendors require stable snapshots as development targets; and individual elements and qualifiers, which in their life-cycles may change in meaning or approval status. Each such event must be uniquely identifiable in a persistent way, and translations must point to the precise sources on which they were based. Versioning a metadata language such as the Dublin Core over time is a balancing act between an error-tolerant fuzziness and a desire for archival precision. This is consistent with the philosophy of a metadata pidgin language that aims at universal interoperability while recognizing the limits of the goal itself
Keywords :
configuration management; database languages; database management systems; digital libraries; information resources; languages; meta data; open systems; Dublin Core Metadata Initiative; Dublin Core versioning; Web agents; approval status; archival precision; changed meanings; element definitions; error-tolerant fuzziness; metadata pidgin language; multi-language registry; persistent uniquely identifiable events; qualifier definitions; schema; software development targets; stable snapshots; translations; universal interoperability; Application software; Documentation; Environmental factors; Information science; Information technology; Natural languages; Open source software; Resource description framework; Software libraries; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Applications and the Internet Workshops, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0945-2
DOI :
10.1109/SAINTW.2001.998223