Re: Emerging metadata standards

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Stewart Brand
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:04:44 -0700

At 8:09 AM -0500 4/28/98, Patricia Galloway wrote:
>The Dublin Core is much less elaborate than the schemes implied by both
>of these projects, and is probably more realistic if evidentiary values
>are not a major concern, but for the purposes of the completely intact
>preservation of a digital object, these should be looked at.

Thanks, Pat. What does "evidentiary values" require?

Are these various standards mutually comfortable, or mutually exclusive?