A Framework for the Deployment of Resource Description. A Container Architecture for Diverse Sets of Metadata. The Dublin Core Resource Type and Format Working Group focuses on the usage and recommended content for the Resource Type and Format elements of the Dublin Core metadata standard. We have received permission from both Spectra and Tony Gill to put this article on the Web. Some issues facing metadata and electronic resources are the non-permanence of URLs and other digital objects.
Web pages come and go, address change, computers and servers go down.
Fortunately there has been a great deal of work in attempting to attach some permanence to the Web. The DOI uses the Handle System to resolve names assigned to digital objects and the means to locate and access those objects. A PURL performs the same function as a URL, but instead of pointing to a location on the Web, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution resource. The American Library Association Task Force on Metadata . The GILS metadata format was designed to be used with Z39.50-based systems.