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6.2. Eurovoc-Africa metadata


6 Metadata Conventions

6.1 Naming Convention

to identify metadata unambiguously without name clashes
6.2 Eurovoc-Africa metadata

the provider of values for a number of metadata items
6.3 Other Metadata Initiatives

identification of semantic equivalences

The Eurovoc thesaurus (or, better yet, an African-scoped version of Eurovoc) is explicitly supported as the provider of values for a number of metadata items, most notably the subject descriptor (metadata name: keyword).

<meta>
    ...
    <keywords dictionary=”Eurovoc”>
        <keyword value=”Community programme”/>
        <keyword value=”Internet”/>
        <keyword value=”information technology”/>
        <keyword value=”new technology”/>
        <keyword value=”data protection”/>
    </keywords>
    ...
</meta>

The value “Afrivoc”, as value for the vocabulary attribute, is reserved for possible use with a pan-African variant on Eurovoc-Africa, the details of which are still under discussion. It may not be necessary to use this extra name if the African customisations of Eurovoc-Africa can be achieved within the existing Eurovoc-Africa extension mechanisms.

 

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