[OAI-implementers] Beginner questions

[Tim Brody]

Identifier in the metadata is a Dublin Core identifier, identifier in 
the header is a unique identifier within your repository.

Dublin Core is a list of unordered, repeatable string values (although 
you should use proper URIs, ISO dates etc. where applicable).

See the Dublin Core docs for what Type, Format, etc. are:
http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dces/
(Dublincore.org seems to be down atm so I can't check that's the 
description doc ...)

e.g.
Header.identifier = "oai:myrepos:uniqueid10"

DC.identifier = "http://www.myrepos.com/item/10"
DC.identifier = "oai:myrepos:unique10" (i.e. you could also include the 
OAI identifier in the metadata)
DC.identifier = "New Order Journal, V202 30-40"
DC.type = "Text"
DC.format = "text/html"
DC.date = "2002-04"
and so on ...

All the best,
Tim.

Venugopal Reddy Pally wrote:
> Hi all,
>    These questions may be very basic but I am a
> beginner. So please bear with me.
>    I am following oai_dc XML Schema for displaying
> metadata of any Record in GetRecord or ListRecords
> response. There is 'identifier' element both in header
> and metadata of Record. So what is the difference
> between identifier element in header and identifier
> element in metadata ? Also, what are the elements -
> Type, Format in metadata ?
> Thanks,
> Venu.
> 
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