Comments on Joe Carmels proposed Dublin Core leg version

See comments embedded below in blue. 

Daniel Bennett

 

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EXAMPLE

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<?xml 
version="1.0"?>

 

<metadata

  
xmlns="http://www.oasis-open.org/legis-metadata"

  
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

  
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.oasis-open/legis-metadata/metadata.xsd"

  
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"

  
xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">

 

 

  
<dc:coverage xsi:type="dcterms:TGN">United States</dc:coverage>  <!-- In that the 
United States documents are located in .gov as opposed to the normal gov.xx 
convention, and also the states use .st.us . We should discuss this 
further-->

 

  <dc:coverage>United 
States House of Representatives</dc:coverage>

 

  
<dc:identifier>108 H. R. 12 IH<dc:identifier>  <!-- 
GREAT--> 

 

  
<dc:identifier 
xsi:type="dcterms:URI">http://www.us-congress.gov/108/HR/12[IH]<dc:identifier>  <!-- It should be assumed 
that the the document linked to uses a DTD and/or 
Schema -->

 

  
<dc:identitfier 
xsi:type="dcterms:URL">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:hr12:</dc:identifier>  <!-- If the system 
changes for links, will the old links still be usable even if redirected? 
--> 

 

  <dc:title>Jobs and 
Growth Tax Act of 2003</dc:title>

 

  <dc:creator>McKeon, 
Howard P. (Buck) [CA-25]</dc:creator>

 

  
<dc:creator 
xsi:type="dcterms:URI">http://bioguide.congress.gov/M000508</dc:creator>  <!-- There should 
be 

 

  <dc:description>To make 
changes to the Higher Education Act of 1965 incorporating the results of the FED 
UP Initiative, and for other purposes.</dc:description>

 

   <dc:description 
xsi:type="dcterms:tableOfContents">Sec. 1. Short title; table of 
contents.  Sec. 2. Reference; effective date; implementation.  Title 
I-Technical Amendments  Sec. 101. Technical amendments.  Sec. 102. 
Clerical amendments.  Sec. 103. Study of teacher preparation.  Title 
II-Student Loan Forgiveness  Sec. 201. Cancellation of student loan 
indebtedness for spouses, surviving joint debtors, and parents.  Title 
III-Opportunities for Higher Education via Telecommunications  Sec. 301. 
Exception to 50 percent correspondence course limitations. Sec. 302. Evaluation 
and report<dc:description>

 

  
<dc:subject> </dc:subject>  <!--Although there has been discussion about 
the difficulty as to acertaining if and what subjects the law or 
proposed legislation can be done, in that legal documents should probably 
not include metadata that is not either clearly stated within the text of the 
document or truly self evident. I would recommend using the term "legislation" 
or "law" or "statute" in the subject field. In this way, we will have 
included clearly within the meta-data, what the document is. or better yet... 
see below in added relation tag-->

 

<dc:relation>USCongress/legislation/108/</dc:relation> <!-- to make clear that this document is 
part of a set of proposed 
legislation-->

 

  
<dc:date>2003-01-07</dc:date>

 

  <dcterms:modified 
refines="dc:date" 
xsi:type="dcterms:W3CDTF">2003-01-07</dcterms:modified>

 

  
<dc:type>text</dc:type>

 

  <dc:format 
xsi:type="dcterms:IMT">text/xml</dc:format>

 

  <dc:language 
xsi:type="dcterns:RFC3066">eng-US</dc:language>

 

  
<dc:rights>This information is a U.S. Government Publication. Works by the 
U. S. Government are not eligible for U. S. copyright 
protection.</dc:rights>  <!--Anytime copyright information is referred to there 
should be a reference/citation to the jurisdiction and either the treaty(s) 
and/or law(s) such as U.S. Code Title 17 Section 105 http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=+17usc105 -->

 

</metadata>

 

 

 

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Joe Carmel

Chief, Legislative Computer 
Systems

Office of the 
Clerk

US House of 
Representatives

2401 Rayburn 
House Office Building

Washington, 
DC 20515

202-225-1182 Fax: 
202-225-6826

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