Re: Best Practice 4 (Document Metadata) - I agree to suppress it

Hi Laufer,

Thanks for your message! My comments are inline.
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> The BP3
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> "Use standard terms to describe metadata - Metadata should be provided using
> standard vocabularies for greater interoperability and discoverability."
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> already suggest that a user should use vocabularies.

yes! I agree!

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> BP1 (provide metadata) talks about the catalogs and I think that the
> documentation about what metadata is provided should be in these catalogs.

I think that the Provide Metadata BP is more general and later on it
will be specialized by other BP.

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> So, I think that BP1 and BP3 cover BP4. I do not know if the intention of
> BP4 was to call attention to code lists, but I think that if this would be
> necessary, this info can be in section 7.4.

The Document metadata BP should be rewritten to become more general,
i.e., not just vocabularies should be documented. In this case, what
else should be documented when talking about metadata?

cheers,
Bernadette

>
> Best,
> Laufer
>
> PS - again about sequential numbering as id - I do not like referring to BPs
> in these way. If we suppress BP4, this won't be true because we will have
> another BP4.
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Bernadette Farias Lóscio
Centro de Informática
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil
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