[pd-discuss] Bibliographic Metadata Guide

Fri Aug 19 15:09:05 UTC 2011

Sorry, where I said "standards" I meant to say "protocols".  Basically,
it can be useful in some cases to describe not just the metadata itself, but
the contexts in which it's embedded or obtained.

John

On 08/19/2011 11:04 AM, John Mark Ockerbloom wrote:
> Is it worth adding some discussion of standards or containers for this metadata?
> While I suspect that you're not intending to focus on that, it does affect
> the metadata choices in some cases. (E.g., OAI-PMH mandates a Dublin Core
> description of each object; Atom may also tend to favor certain kinds of
> formats.) Likewise, containers such as METS are one way of addressing the
> problem of combining descriptive and non-descriptive metadata.
>
> John