On 28 Jan 2010, at 10:46, TAYLOR Robin wrote:
Metadata encodings :- Seems like a good thing to me. Could be used as the
basis for validation of metadata and possibly as a means of reducing some of
the bespoke qualification of DC metadata terms that exists in Dspace.
Validation - that sounds
Taylor
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-Original Message-
From: Graham Triggs [mailto:grahamtri...@gmail.com]
Sent: 28 January 2010 13:20
To: TAYLOR Robin
Cc: dspace-devel
Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] RE. Machine readable citations
and metadata encodings
Is a citation one datum or a package of many data? Depends on how you
are thinking about it at the moment. Is 39°47'27N 86°08'52W one
datum, or two, or eight?
(One of the complexities of learning to think in objects is their
essential duality. As with, is light a wave or a particle, an
