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[Webb, KerryA]

Jan wrote:

>
> Dublin Core was more about relevant fields and less about the actual
> taxonomy used to fill them. I think what Paul is talking about fits
> more the line of controlled vocabularies at a broad scale and how do
> you pick them.
>
> If you were looking for DC equivalent, the AGLS was an attempt to
> customise the structure for government information. I have no idea
> what the status is for that. Others on Link will probably know who
> work in government information strategies.
>

AGLS was originally aimed at Government information, but in a bold move its proponents attempted to expend this activity to all sorts of information - to the extent that AGLS is no longer an initialism, but a collection of letters that has no formal expansion.

The current status is (as far as I know) it is an Australian Standard, almost universally ignored, even in Government.

It hasn't achieved mass appeal mostly because few Web content creators know about it and few people see the point in creating extra information for each resource before they publish it.

Kerry
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