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RE: [Metadata] Distributed vs. centralized metadata



there are many stakeholders in the arena that definitively will NOT release
their metadata to a centralized repository.

stu


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Eric Hellman [SMTP:eric@hellman.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 03, 1999 2:27 PM
> To:	metadata@doi.org
> Subject:	[Metadata] Distributed vs. centralized metadata
> 
> There are (at least) two basic architectures for DOI metadata.
> 
> 1. The publisher is responsible for providing and maintaining metadata,
> either within the digital object itself, or as a separate object. A
> central
> resolver stores only pointers to the metadata. Decentralized services
> collect and process the metadata into applications.
> 
> 2. A centralized service collects and maintains metadata, then provides
> the
> metadata to centralized or decentralized metadata applications.
> 
> The recent metadata paper seems to come down on the side of centralized
> metadata, but at the same time wants it to be "minimal". The question of
> how to do applications which require more complex metadata is deferred to
> the "DOIGenre" concept. This really needs to be fleshed out, because a
> centralized core needs to work well with decentralized DOIgenres. (You
> can't prevent decentralized genres from happening. If DOI acheives its
> goal
> of facilitating e-commerce of digital objects, then sooner or later
> someone
> is going to make money with an XXX-DOIGenre!)
> 
> Eric
> Eric Hellman
> Openly Informatics, Inc.
> http://www.openly.com/           Tools for 21st Century Scholarly
> Publishing
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