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Metadata schema registries have great potential to enhance usability and reusability of metadata schemas. Application profiles are a key concept for Dublin Core, and have a crucial role in promoting reuse of metadata schemas. This paper discusses basic concepts and models of metadata schemas, in order to clarify functional requirements for extendin...
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... help users use and reuse metadata schemas. Identifying these components is crucial in clarifying requirements for extending the functionality of a metadata schema registry. The first three rows show schema components, the next three rows show components related to objectives, and the last two show formal description aspects for metadata schemas. FIG. 2 illustrates relationships among the components and their ...
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... FIG. 2, the DCMI registry primarily covers only the blocks represented as vocabulary terms, while the JISC IEMSR registry covers the application profile blocks in addition to the vocabulary blocks. The attributes defined for schema registries are useful to convey authoritative information of the definition of terms to users. However, users ...
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... In 2006, Nagamori and Sugimoto of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Registry Working Group advocated for the use of registries as a tool to enhance metadata interoperability. The following year, they called for registries to enhance usability and reusability of schemas (Nagamori & Sugimoto, 2007). Their effort was echoed by other researchers who promoted best practices for documenting metadata (Hodge, 2008;Nagamori & Sugimoto, 2008). ...
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