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RE: [Metadata] Distributed vs. centralized metadata
- To: metadata@doi.org
- Subject: RE: [Metadata] Distributed vs. centralized metadata
- From: "Weibel,Stu" <weibel@oclc.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:16:16 -0500
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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