Felt users would understand simplicity of
DC, MODS was fairly new at the time, needed something that would be fast to
implement, wanted to use OAI (before best practices work)
Assigned
elements to work/item/both, defined repeatable and mandatory elements (only
the ID is mandatory to make threshold low for users)
Made no designations
about 1) where titles should come from, 2) who “creators” v. “contributors”
are, 3) what controlled vocab to use.