Thursday, September 24, 2009

Muddiest point Week 4

I checked out the Dublin Core website and found it fairly informative. I liked how it provided links to different software downloads that one could use for different computer programming projects. This left me wondering if the Dublin Core is the only widespread metadata service provider out there and if so, why have they not created a common worldwide metadata model for people to use. Why is this the case?
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  1. yuqi heNovember 15, 2009 at 7:39 PM

    Apparently, Dublin Core is not the only widespread metadata standards in the world. There are many metadata standards including Dublin Core, such as MODS, MARC.
    MARC used to be a widespread metadata standards in the computer age. Many standards are created according to different application environment. For instance, archive has its own metadata standards and library has MARC to record materials. It is very pricey for an institution to change the metadata standards. And many institutions are accustomed to their own standards, they are not willing to change.

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