Requirements for the DCMI registry

Users and implementors need

• a dictionary of terms

• a place to publish project- or discipline-specific adaptations to share with colleagues and partners

Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative needs

• to manage its namespace (as a standards agency)
• to provide machine-readable schemas for loading into editors and search engines
• to provide crosswalks to related schemas
• to link the (English) standard to translations in other languages (25 to date)

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