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Originally Posted by jowen1
Dublin Core is not a system for classification and indexing, but a protocol for describing information objects.
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Describing objects has only one purpose, classifying and indexing them.
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The wider point is that a system such as Calibre, however useful on a personal level, has little future in a coming digital revolution where personal data will be seamlessly linked to or harvested by other users or aggregate systems (e.g. a e-book repository). The digital revolution and the concept of a (semantic or otherwise) web of information is ultimately based on descriptive standards. If Calibre does not adopt these, it will remain a great tool, absolutely isolated from the rest of the digital world.
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Actually, if a descriptive standard is so cumbersome to use that no one will ever end up using it, then *it* has no future, not software that actually does something useful. And calibre already exports metadata in Dublin Core, just look at the opf files in the library folders. But if you expect calibre, or any other cataloging program to present user interfaces to get users to enter *all* the metadata elements defined in Dublin Core, you're going to be sadly disappointed.