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6.3. Other Metadata Initiatives


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

AKOMA NTOSO strongly encourages the identification of semantic equivalences between AKOMA NTOSO metadata and well-known  international metadata initiatives. Among them a strong importance is in providing equivalences between AKOMA NTOSO and IFLA FRBR, Dublin Core (http://dublincore.org/) and FOAF (http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/).

The central repository of the AKOMA NTOSO metadata initiative provides a direct conversion mapping between all relevant AKOMA NTOSO metadata and other metadata initiatives (whenever appropriate). In particular, all AKOMA NTOSO required and optional items are mapped, whenever appropriate, to specific Dublin Core and FOAF properties. The central repository will also require that all local extensions (either belonging to the AKOMA-NTOSO prefix or not) are explicitly associated to a Dublin Core or FOAF property whenever appropriate.

 

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