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Questions about More About Metadata

There's plenty of things to learn about metadata but all in all it's not that hard. It just a way to say you are going to collect specific kind of informaiton about an object. Dublin Core is the simplest. It's just 15 elements. I'll try and collect more examles and documentation.

This article Keeping Dublin Core Simple by Car Lagoze while not simple reading provides what could be considered a mini-hostory of the development of the Dublin Core and its growing pains. Logoze understands these problems and is usually what I would considers an authority on these topics.

Types of Metadata

Dublin Core

Library of Congress American Memory Project

Metadata that we're using in our project*

MetadataSample - I've got the information on this page from the web.

From Harvard

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