Two paths to interoperable metadata

  • Authors:
  • Carol Jean Godby;Devon Smith;Eric Childress

  • Affiliations:
  • OCLC;OCLC;OCLC

  • Venue:
  • DCMI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications: supporting communities of discourse and practice---metadata research & applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes a prototype for a Web service that translates between pairs of metadata schemas. Despite a current trend toward encoding in XML and XSLT, we present arguments for a design that features a more distinct separation of syntax from semantics. The result is a system that auomates routine processes, has a well-defined place for human input, and achieves a clean separation of the document data model, the document translations, and the machinery of the application.