Dublin Core allows you to apply any metadata element multiple times to one object of data it describes. This is a strengh not a weakness. For instance you can apply a subject or author or contributor multiple times. I did not (yet) dig too deep into Dublin Core but futhermore you can cascade metadata descriptors like author.nickname (nickname is a more exact definition of the author description i believe).

Anyway… whats the use of that simple table ;p.

Lets discuess – what are you going to do with dc, why are you using it. I am really messing around with metadata in my mind lately and I cant get to a clear concept in my mind, yet.

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The simple table is quite useful when you’re needing to manage a straightforward set of records. I’m using it on a few projects to manage assets (images, videos, URLs, etc…) where the multiplicity would have been more difficult to implement, and wasn’t needed by the metadata.

I’m also coming from the perspective of having previously implemented IMS/IEEE LOM a couple of different ways, so having a barebones simple “library card” record database has been very refreshing…