Dublin Core: An Obituary

摘要

The one good thing to come out of the failure and demise of the DCMI is MODS. MODS promises standard and specific data elements and wide interoperability. The lessons we have learned from Dublin Core's failure are these: metadata elements have to be well defined, with more universal agreement on the meaning of the elements. The metadata structure and content must have the ability to be easily crosswalked to other metadata schemes. The input of day-to-day metadata practitioners needs to be heeded when designing any metadata scheme. Significantly, the less-than-honorable intentions of OCLC to use the standard as a revenue generating source contributed to its failure.