What is the relationship between QAML metadata and Dublin Core?
Dublin Core metadata is a list of some basic metadata categories that is useful for any WWW document authored by a general person. It is “Metadata for the rest of us”. QAML 2 was written with the Dublin Core catgories in mind. Because QAML 1 was written before Dublin Core, the same names are not used, but the QAML 2 DTD includes the mappings to Dublin Core elements as comments. The mappings between Dublin Core elements (with the DC prefix) and QAML 2 element types is given below. QAML’s title maps to DC.TITLE . QAML’s maintain maps to DC.CREATOR. QAML’s author and contributor map to DC.CONTRIBUTOR . QAML’s archive maps to DC.IDENTIFIER . QAML’s hdr and althdr map to DC.DESCRIPTION . QAML’s topic and topic maps to DC.SUBJECT . Other Dublin Core metadata may be available: for example the maintainer may in some cases be regarded as the publisher. Information about the copyrights and extents of the data are not available through standard mappings. Note however that the QAML 2 DTD does incl
