Guiding Principles of DCMES

• Limited, Clearly Defined Purpose

  • Shallow description of objects for cross-domain networked information discovery and retrieval (NIDR)
  • Not for deep description
  • Not for object management

• Modularity

  • Coexistence of disparate, but complementary metadata

• Extensibility

  • Additional Elements (domain and local)
  • Element qualifiers (making more refined statements—refining element semantics)
  • Value qualifiers (making more controlled statements—refining element content)

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