A discussion of some of the issues arising from the use of the various Dublin Core Application Profiles being developed by projects funded by the JISC Repositories & Preservation Programme

Preprint of paper to DC-2006 Conference, Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, 3-6 October 2006. Abstract: This paper presents a conceptual metadata framework for Dublin Core metadata, intended to support the development of interoperable metadata standards and applications. The model rests on the fundamental concept of an "abstract model" for metadata, as exemplified by the DCMI Abstract Model, and...

Preprint of short paper to DC-2006 Conference, Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, 3-6 October 2006. Abstract: All development activities undertaken by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) are now underpinned by the DCMI Abstract Model (DCAM), the syntax-neutral framework within which Dublin Core (DC) metadata descriptions are constructed. As such, it is vital that the DCMI community has a sim...