The Dublin Core in context
- In practice, metadata implementers
- combine elements from different sources (e.g. DC plus elements from other schemas, “local” elements)
- refine definitions of elements
- constrain use of elements
- Application profiles
- if simple DC is a “pidgin”, an application profile is a “regional idiom or creole”! (Baker)
- element set plus policies, guidelines
- some DCMI WGs developing application profiles for specific domains