Streams of metadata based on IAFA and BibTeX. No standard fields yet. Binary OK.
OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop in Dublin, Ohio defined Document Like Objects (DLOs) and 13 metadata elements for resource discovery.
Map a URN to one or more URLs. Two Internet Drafts on URCs are:
A simple way to provide the URN to URLs mapping
In SGML based on the Dublin Core, with HTTP-style queries.
Supports IAFA Templates and urc0 as pseudo-URCs.
From the library on-line catalogue world. Good for physical media (atoms not bits).
Copyright ©1995 Dave Beckett, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.