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Kattemingga Lodge Melbourne, Australia © 2000 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative |
Jon Mason & Stuart Sutton, Co-Chairs 1 March, 2000 All Rights Reserved |
In the work at Kattemingga, it was important for the participants to distinguish among the following classes of metadata elements (in descending order of interoperability):
- DC-Interoperability Elements/Qualifiers: Entities that are judged to be widely useful across disciplines–i.e., they are Core entities.
- DC-Domain Elements/Qualifiers: Entities that are judged to be useful within a domain, but perhaps not across domains.
- Common, But Local Elements/Qualifiers: Entities that are intended to be useful for local applications or in a constrained federation of applications, but, perhaps, not widely used even in a given domain.