Abstraction versus implementation: issues in formalizing the NIEHS application profile
Corey A. Harper, Jane Greenberg, W. Davenport Robertson, Ellen Leadem · 2002
The National Institute of Environment Health Sciences (NIEHS), is an Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). As with many governmental organizations, the NIEHS website contains a rich and growing body of important resources for both employees and the general public. The NIEHS library has spearheaded an organization-wide metadata project to provide better access to these resources. Dublin Core was elected for the NIEHS metadata project because it supports semantic interoperability and the potential for data sharing, and because the schema is simple enough to support author-generated metadata. This paper and corresponding poster document issues in formalizing the NIEHS Application Profile, specifically the changes implemented between Version 1 to Version 2, which were influenced by revisions made to the NIEHS metadata form supporting author-generated metadata.