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Hallo Robert & Community<br>
<br>
That is a good question (that might best fit for a (non-existent) TDWG
metadata discussion list). <br>
<br>
I have used to put taxon names in the Subject
field in DC. Look at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bioshare.net/dabuh">http://www.bioshare.net/dabuh</a>
for examples. But
it has been rather unstructured and there has been no attempt to embed
real TCS elements therein.<br>
<br>
The other alternative is to use the Coverage field of DC. There are
established conventions to embed spatial and temporal scope in an
XMLish way in Coverage. So why not figure out a similar syntax for
biological taxonomy?<br>
<br>
For those who don't know this tool, the Data Repository Tool is a
simple data warehouse tool that has DiGIR and TAPIR access points. It
organises content in a folder structure that has Dublin Core metadata
for the folders. The folders can hold data files that have a Dublin
Core header and Darwin Core records. It can serve any flatly organised
(denormalised) data.<br>
<br>
Regards, Hannu Saarenmaa<br>
<br>
Robert Huber wrote:
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cite="mid:5cf66b430802130555h772a3c86k4d894619a406528e@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Dear all,<br>
<br>
This is a bit OT, but at least about metadata: I am curently preparing
some data in TCS schema and I plan to set up a OAI interface for data
exchange.<br>
According to the OAI specifications the use of dublin (NOT darwin..)
core formatted metadata is obligatory, so I will also try to offer
oai_dc metadata.<br>
<br>
I would like to ask the group if there have been any discussions on
mapping TCS to DC before? Do you know of any attempts to model concept
or name metadata with DC?<br>
<br>
many thanks in advance,<br>
Robert<br clear="all">
<br>
-- <br>
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