What is the relation between EAD, PICS, Dublin Core, RDF and the Warwick Framework?
EAD, Dublin Core/RDF and PICS are all serve different stages of document production. Lets use the terminology of the Movie industry (Ted Nelson has said that Hypertext is a kind of movie-making), but applied to electronic archives Web sites:– • Pre-production: archiving, scanning. marking up data and metadata • Production: storing in database, indexing, running queries, etc. • Post-production: access through a web-server, formatting results of database queries, designing and attaching appropriate look-and-feel for different classes of users and media, handling navigation; • Session: authorizing logins, locating resources, negotiating appropriate content, maintaining state-information about user sessions (cookies, etc) EAD is therefore aimed at pre-production needs–archivists need to store all the relevent information that they have, whether or not it fits into nice Dublin Core categories or not. (The EAD Design Principles put it this way: “The needs of public users, curatorial and re
