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Assignment 2: XML Data DTD Construction and Dublin Core Description 

Assigned 8/31. Due 9/7.

XML Data DTD Construction and Dublin Core Description

This assignment is intended to help introduce you to XML DTD design and also to help you think about and carry out descriptions of network and other information resources using the Dublin Core metadata framework. Information on the Dublin Core descriptive elements and their use can be found at http://purl.oclc.org/metadata/dublin_core/. Discussion of XML DTDs and their elements can be found in the reader, and also via the Robin Cover SGML/XML web site. Note that not all items will require all descriptive elements.

The assignment has three parts:

  1. Create an XML DTD that has all 15 elements of the Dublin Core as XML elements.
  2. Create Dublin Core descriptions for each of the items listed below.
  3. Format your answers as well-formed XML documents using your DTD.
The items that you are to describe are:
 
  1. The Information Economy Website: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/
    Create one Dublin Core metadata description for the entire web site.
  2. The UC Museum of Paleontology Website: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
    Create one Dublin Core metadata description for each of:
    • the main web page
    • the main online exhibits page
    • the Phylogeny sub-site linked to from the main exhibits page.
  3. Create one Dublin Core metadata description of your textbook for this course (i.e., Baeza-Yates & Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval).
To create the metadata description simply use a word processor and mark up your description of these items using the DTD created in part 1. Your description should go into the appropriate elements defined by your DTD -- the content should be based on what you find at the OCLC site http://purl.oclc.org/metadata/dublin_core/. You shouldn't need to read all of the information on the web sites to be able to do these descriptions, just enough so that you have a good idea of what they are about and how to describe them.
Be sure to include your DTD along with your marked-up descriptions.