[OAI-implementers] dc metadata question

[Michael Nelson]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Fiona Bathgate wrote:

> Dear OAI-implementers,
>
> Looking at the OAI-PMH examples in XML at:
> http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html#dublincore
> example number 2,  line  10
>
> <dc:subject>LCSH:Ausdehnungslehre; LCCN QA205.H99</dc:subject>
>
> has the schemes LCSH LCCN embedded in the xml.
>
> I had thought that schemes because they are 'qualifiers' are not
> OAI-PMH compliant.

that is more like "tunneling" the LCSH headings; not exactly qualifiers.
see example 2.3.9.2 in:

http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2002/05/15/dcq-rdf-xml/

and also:

http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

regards,

Michael

> If i want to specify schemes in a metadata set that will be OAI-PMH
> compliant how would i do this? My metadata set will consist of a
> number of elements from the 15 UDC metadata elements set. Other
> schemes i wish to specify, besides LCSH for DC.subject, would be
> W3CDTF for DC.date, RFC3066 for DC.language, URI  for DC.identifier
> for example
>
> thanks in advance
> Fiona Bathgate
>
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