Suggestions and comments were received from all partners of the Agricultural Metadata Standards Initiative, as well as from Stuart Weibel, Executive Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. These led to the following implementation decisions with respect to the generic specification of Dublin Core:
To merge the DC elements Creator, Contributor and Publisher to one main element called Creator;
To drop the element Source, but elaborate the element Relation to include information about the source;
To propose a new element called TARGET AUDIENCE;
A number of new qualifiers and attributes were introduced that are vital to the description and discovery of information in the agricultural domain. They are all described in detail in Annex 1
In addition to these implementation aspects with respect to generic Dublin Core, Authority files were created for elements and qualifiers that have secondary information that is not included in the metadata description of a resource but is relevant for resource discovery.
