This proposal is for review by Dublin Core community. It proposes a new element refinement Version for the element DC:Description that is included in the proposed DC-Library Application Profile. This review period is 15 April-11 May 2002.
| Name | version |
| Label | Version |
| Definition | Information designating the version or edition of a work. |
| Comment | Includes statements designating an edition or version. This may describe the resource in terms of a number or statement that assists in distinguishing it from other expressions of similar content. |
| Examples | Second edition; Revised version; Version 2.0 |
| Type of term | Element refinement |
| Term qualified | Description |
| Why needed | Being able to specify the version or edition of a given work is often critical to successful resource discovery and identification to determine whether a resource is the same as another one. This is particularly important for resources that change frequently. |
| Proposed status | Cross domain; this may be applicable for other applications |
| Related DCMI terms | Relation, except that relation is a pointer to some other resource and is not a descriptor of its version. There is also not necessarily any related item to link to. |
| Related non-DCMI terms | MARC Field 250 (Edition) |
| Impact on applications | Other applications may have defined a local element or qualifier for this because of its general need; this has not been determined. (Earlier suggestions have been to use with DC:Title, but it is not clear if this has ever been used.) |
| About the proposers |
DC-Libraries Application Profile drafting committee discussion Sept. 2001: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A1=ind0109&L=dc-libraries-ap See Position paper by Robin Wendler |
Best practice: This element refinement would not be
repeated.
Issues: This could also be defined as a separate element rather than element refinement, but because of its importance in identification of the resource the benefits of retaining the information when DC-Lib descriptions are "dumbed-down" to simple DC argue for refining an element within the basic 15. Since it is a essentially a descriptor, Description is an appropriate element to refine.