Background to the Eprints DCAP • Eprints AP development funded by JISC, Summer 2006 • Co-ordinated by Julie Allinson & Andy Powell (Eduserv Foundation) • Specification for using DC metadata for eprints that overcomes limitations of "Simple DC“ – especially relationships between “versions” – “what is being described?” • "eprint": – a ''scientific or scholarly research text'‘ (Budapest Open Access Initiative) – e.g. peer-reviewed journal article, preprint, working paper, thesis, book chapter, report, etc.