Dumbing down a rich set of metadata

Ambiguity of what is being described

Lack of a standard EAD --> OAI crosswalk

Lack of XML schema for EAD

Reference

Prom, Christopher J. and Thomas G. Habing. "Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocols with EAD" in JCDL 2002: Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, July 14-18, 2002, Gary Marchionini and William Hersch (proceedings editors). New York, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 171-180. http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/publications/jcdl2002/p14-prom.pdf