In case you haven't seen it already, I meant to add that Hillman,
Dushay and Phipps have a good paper on the operational need we have to
move beyond the Record in our metadata:
Improving Metadata Quality: Augmentation and Recombination
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/7897
Digital libraries have, in the main, adopted the traditional library
notion of the metadata 'record' as the basic unit of management and
exchange. Although this simplifies the harvest and re-exposure of
metadata, it limits the ability of metadata aggregators to improve the
quality of metadata and to share specifics of those improvements with
others. The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is exploring
options for augmenting harvested metadata and re-exposing the
augmented metadata to downstream users with detailed information on
how it was created and by whom. The key to this augmentation process
involves changing the basic metadata unit from 'record' to
'statement.'
//Ed
Received on Tue Apr 20 2010 - 10:34:52 EDT