On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Riley, Jenn <jenlrile_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
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>> So wait, why didn't the QDC people just use oai_dc too?
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> 'Cause the properties in oai_dc are the simple DC properties - no way to just tack on the additional features needed for QDC (a few additional elements, refinements, statements of encoding schemes used, etc.). Basically for a QDC format you need to start at the outer wrapper and then start importing the various parts (the old QDC XML had three separate XML schemas I think) rather than starting from the simple one and adding features to it.
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Right, the schemas don't allow for QDC from OAI_DC:
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd
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http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/simpledc20021212.xsd
-Ross.
Received on Mon May 03 2010 - 12:22:12 EDT