On Information Factoring in Dublin Metadata Records: Release History

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DCMI Note - On Information Factoring in Dublin Metadata Records

Mon, 19 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Title:	On Information Factoring in Dublin Metadata Records
Creator:	Sperberg-McQueen, C. M.
Date Issued:	1996-04-17
Identifier:	http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/info-factoring/2001-03-19/
Replaces:	NA
Is Replaced By:	NA
Latest version:	http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/info-factoring/

Status of document:	This is a DCMI Note.
Description of document:	This document describes some problems in the interpretation of metadata records which contain repeated fields, repeated field groups, or references to other metadata records. The semantics of repeated fields and groups (and, equivalently, of references to other metadata records) are described using sentential logic, and a proposal is made to specify the interpretation of repeating groups using the disjunctive normal form of corresponding logical expressions. From this proposal, requirements for grouping elements and inheritance are derived. The semantic principles involved may be of wider applicability, but all examples are from the socalled `Dublin Core' of metadata elements, described in the paper OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report, by Stuart Weibel, Jean Godby, Eric Miller, and Ron Daniel, available on the World Wide Web at http://www.oclc.org:5046/conferences/metadata/dublin_core_report.html.