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Metadata Formats
FIGURE 6.6
DSpace Dublin Core Display
flexibility. Dublin Core recognizes that it does not cover the potential needs
of all users and is not sufficient for purposes other than simple resource
discovery—so the metadata schema itself has been designed to allow for
the creation of local extensions to meet local needs. However, unlike many
other metadata schemas, the addition of these local extensions does not
cause compatibility problems for Dublin Core, since metadata elements
can always be reduced down to the core fifteen unqualified elements. This
allows metadata implementers to customize the Dublin Core schema for
their own local usage without sacrificing the ability to share metadata with
other systems. For example, within DSpace, Qualified Dublin Core is uti-
lized when doing metadata creation so that information can be captured at
the highest level of granularity that Dublin Core provides.
Figure 6.6 provides a screenshot of a record within the Ohio State
University DSpace repository. Within the metadata, one can see how ele-
ments, like date, are being utilized with refinements to provide additional
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