The next step was to consider alternatives to the Dublin Core scheme
that would not stray far from best practices, and that could be used by
both institutions, and yet would explain the significance of these
documents with the required level of granularity.
Our final choice was Goddard Core, which was developed by
NASA’s Goddard Museum; it is an extension of Dublin Core and an
ideal bridge between the library world and the space museum
community (Goddard Library, 2005).
Goddard Core differs from unqualified Dublin Core by featuring a
little more granularity. For example, Goddard Core allows one to
utilize the following subdivisions for Dublin Core Element Subject :