Discussion Class 4

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Discussion Class 4

• The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

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Discussion Classes
Format Question Ask a member of the class to
answer Provide opportunity for others to
comment When answering Give your name. Make
sure that the TA hears it. Stand up Speak
clearly so that all the class can hear
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Question 1 Terminology
The subtitle of the paper is "Cross-Domain
Discovery or Resource Description?" (a) What
does the author mean by "cross-domain"? (b) What
does the author mean by "resource description"?
(c) What have pidgin languages to do with this
topic?
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Question 2 (Old Midterm Examination)
What is the Dublin Core principle of
dumbing-down? Are there any fields in this record
that do not satisfy the principle?
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Question 2 (Old Midterm Examination)
What is the Dublin Core principle of
dumbing-down? Are there any fields in this record
that do not satisfy the principle? "The theory
behind this principle is that consumers of
metadata should be able to strip off qualifiers
and return to the base form of a property. ...
this principle makes it possible for client
applications to ignore qualifiers in the context
of more coarse-grained, cross-domain searches."

Lagoze 2001
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Question 2 (Old Midterm Examination)
Dumbing-down failures Description.note Title
from home page as viewed on Nov. 1,
2000. Description Title from home
page as viewed on Nov. 1, 2000. which is not a
description of the object Publisher.place
Nashville, Tenn. Publisher
Nashville, Tenn. which is not the publisher
of the object Correct dumbing-down Subject.class
.LCC E840.8.G65 Subject
E840.8.G65 which is a subject code
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Question 3 (Old Midterm Examination)
4(b) The metadata in the fields Publisher and
Publisher place end in punctuation marks. Can
you suggest any reasons for doing so?
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Question 3 (Old Midterm Examination)
4(b) The metadata in the fields Publisher and
Publisher place end in punctuation marks. Can
you suggest any reasons for doing so? This is a
historic curiosity. It comes from the concept
that the metadata will be printed, so that the
metadata is stored in a printable
format. Publisher Gore/Lieberman, Publisher.pla
ce Nashville, Tenn. is intended to be combined
with a date as follows Nashville, Tenn.
Gore/Lieberman, 2001
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Question 4 (Old Midterm Examination)
4(c) This record has no Creator field. It has a
Contributor.nameCorporate field with value
"Gore/Lieberman, Inc." Do you consider that this
is correct use of Dublin Core? What would you put
in the Creator and Contributor fields? Why?
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Question 4 (Old Midterm Examination)
Specification of Dublin Core A. All fields are
optional. It is not necessary to have a
Creator. B. Definitions of fields Creator The
person or organization primarily responsible for
the intellectual content of the resource.
Contributor A person or organization not
specified in a creator element who has made
significant intellectual contributions to the
resource but whose contribution is secondary to
any person or organization specified in a creator
element. Gore/Lieberman, Inc. is the corporate
author of this web site and is therefore the
Creator.
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Question 5 Mona Lisa with Curlers
The author uses Mona Lisa with Curlers to
illustrate that metadata is not monolithic. He
discusses a modular approach to metadata using
metadata packages. Explain?
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Question 6 Change
Traditional library cataloguing has worked well
for more than one hundred years. (a) What has
changed? (b) Why should we not continue to use
traditional cataloguing rules?
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Question 7 Document-like objects
(a) What is a document-like object? Give some
examples. (b) Since hardly anything on the
Internet is a document-like object, why is the
concept useful in information discovery?
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Question 8 Engineering
The paper states that Dublin Core is "far from
perfect from an engineering perspective." (a)
What does the paper suggest should be done? (b)
Why?
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Question 9 Simplicity
This paper is an argument for simplicity in
Dublin Core. (a) What benefits come with
simplicity? (b) What is lost by simplicity? (c)
What approach can be used to overcome what is
lost?