G'day and question regarding RDA mapping to DC

[BEER,Chris]

Good afternoon all

I'm a new sign up to these lists, so first things first - hello!

By way of background, I work in Web Publishing in the Australian Public Sector. 
I have pretty much no library skills or background (apart from working in the 
high school library back when I was still at school - pre-Internet era ;) ) but 
I do have a keen interest in metadata and all things related.

So here is my question - is there *anywhere* that I can locate a fairly simple, 
plain english (or not-so-plain english) mapping of RDA to Dublin Core elements. 
Most of what I've found is either beyond me (without an extreme learning curve) 
or appears to be rather dated. I'm interested in straight one to one mappings, 
or mapping using a common conversion such as RDF, RDFa, OWL etc, or in talking 
to someone who has some experience in these matters. I have the need to provide 
both RDA metadata and DC based metadata to web pages (and possibly, we hope, 
not long after to the electronic documents linking from them) and would 
obviously like to remove the need to display both sets of metadata information 
where possible (being that less code is always better, unless I'm approaching 
this completely the wrong way.)

Should you reply to me/the list, have pity and assume that you're talking to a 
non-librarian/expert with a fair degree of self taught knowledge - but possibly 
not the right knowledge. :) I may also need to pass this information along to 
very non-technically minded people.

Thanks in advance for your time - I'm looking forward to learning a lot from 
the lists and communities.

Cheers

Chris Beer







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