On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Having read the rest of this thread, I find that nothing that's been > said changes my initial gut reaction on reading this question: DO NOT > USE DCTERMS. It's vocabulary is Just Plain Inadequate, and not only > for esoteric cases like the Alternative Chronological Designation of > First Issue or Part of Sequence field that Karen mentioned. Despite > having 70 (seventy!) elements, it's lacking fundamental fields for > describing articles in journals -- there are no journalTitle, volume, > issue, startPage or endPage fields. That, for me, is a deal-breaker. If you're using Dublin Core as XML, I agree with this. If you're using Dublin Core as RDF (which is, honestly, the only thing it's really good for), this is a non-issue. -Ross.