Like languages, schemas evolve

Like words in languages, metadata terms may be coined, adopted, approved by official bodies, change meaning, or fall from use.

As in languages, need for simplicity is inevitably in tension with need for complexity

  • Dublin Core™ Element Set is almost always too simple to use "as is", so it is extended locally
  • If not managed, the proliferation of local extensions threatens interoperability in broader context
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