How does ASF relate to the Dublin Core?
Dublin Core is a set of definitions (semantics) for some common metadata elements. The further development of Dublin Core is now tied to the work on Resource Description Framework underway in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). ASF and many other operational implementations demonstrate that GILS-compliant search is used very successfully with Dublin Core. The fifteen unqualified Dublin Core elements are mapped to GILS by the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) Standards Office (see