Cross-domain applicability versus domain-specific resolution
A fundamental conflict underlies the current deliberations of diverse scholarly communities; namely the contrasting needs for an element set capable of adequately describing 'my' subject (whatever that may be) and an element set capable of providing inter-disciplinary interoperability.
Every addition of a discipline/interpretation/subject-specific element, SCHEME or TYPE to the Core serves to make it more effective within the discipline making the change, and consequently less effective everywhere else. A narrow line must be steered between the excesses of either approach, as we neither want a non-interoperable catalogue nor one too generalised to be of use to anyone.
Whilst it rapidly became clear that the implementation of 'pure' Dublin Core (Miller and Gill 1997), without any element qualifiers whatsoever, would result in a core unsuitable for use across the humanities, there is the ever-present danger that creation of an implementation too reliant upon detailed qualification and sub-qualification will prove equally unsuitable, for exactly the opposite reasons.
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