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This spreadsheet was initiated by Roy Plante, and converted to a Google Spreadsheet by SM Richard. Please add columns with your comments. If you are logged in with a gmail account, then the doc will track your changes, otherwise changes will be anonymous.Comments (Steve Richard)
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The element definitions on the SemanticDefinitions tab assume that the elements all describe a Resource; that is, these are properties of an implied subject. That subject is refer to as a Resource as defined here:metadata elements described on the semantic definition tab should be considered abstract properties, independent of their implementation. It will be apparent that for many of the properties, a variety of implementation options will be available, and it is the choices about these implementation options that mostly differentiate the various metadata dialects (standards) that are in use... The goal here is to define a set of properties for describing/documenting resources at a level of abstraction that allows mapping of information content between any metadata dialect.
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TermSemantic DefinitonCardinalityCorresponding (or related) Dublin Core termsComments (Ray Plante)See also: http://aboutdata.org/patterns.html
http://usgin.github.io/usginspecs/metadataModel/index.htm and http://usgin.github.io/usginspecs/MetadataRecommendationsGeoscienceResources_v1.2.htm
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Concepts_Glossary and http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Metadata_Dialects
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ResourceAn identified, described, and discoverable component of the distributed data environment.Taken from work on this subject described at http://wiki.nationaldataservice.org/ResourceConceptDataModel. This definition could apply in principle to any of the blocks in the MIG concept block diagram, but we most commonly think of "Organisation", "Project", "Product", "Publication" and "Person" as important types of Resources.I prefer a more general definition: "an identifiable thing of interest", which is closer to the rdf concept (unfortunately the rdf documentation never explicitly defines 'resource' as far as I can tell. The closest thing is section 1.2 in https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts: "Any IRI or literal denotes something in the world (the "universe of discourse"). These things are called resources.", which has been interpreted to provide the above definition.
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From the RDA point of view, it seems that a dataset should be added as an important type of resource.
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