At 01:07 PM 9/6/01 -0400, David Goodman wrote:
>I am writing as an outsider and would like to point out some apparent
>confusion about minimal necessary identifiers, at least as proposed
>here.
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>What is called "minimal bibliographic metadata" applies only to articles
>in conventional journals
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I'm even less of an expert than David, not being a librarian at all, but an
immediate thought that occurs to me is: What about Dublin Core? That was
conceived of as a minimal set of metadata, which is why it's called a "core".
Fytton Rowland.
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