On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Riley, Jenn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> So wait, why didn't the QDC people just use oai_dc too? > > 'Cause the properties in oai_dc are the simple DC properties - no way to just > tack on the additional features needed for QDC (a few additional elements, > refinements, statements of encoding schemes used, etc.). Basically for a QDC > format you need to start at the outer wrapper and then start importing the > various parts (the old QDC XML had three separate XML schemas I think) rather > than starting from the simple one and adding features to it. > Right, the schemas don't allow for QDC from OAI_DC: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd & http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/simpledc20021212.xsd -Ross.
