For all practical purposes, the ability to express metadata as the Dublin Core metadata elements is a sufficient baseline for sharing repository items across subject and institutional domains.
Which set of Dublin Core metadata elements? the original 11? the DCMI extended set?
It's a baseline for sharing across subject boundaries and institutional boundaries only to the extent that those subjects and institutions share agreement as to what the metadata elements mean, and how they should be used. Deciding whether it's a sufficient baseline is more difficult: sufficient for what? not a lot, I suspect.
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