Hi Andy
I'm currently at the WWW9 conference in AMsterdam (as you know). WAP
and the mobile web is the main theme of this year's conference. This
mornings panel session (which started at 8am!) was on the theme of the
WAP-Enabled Web. I asked the panel a question about the need for a
metadata architecture for WAP/WML. The view from a speakerr from
Phonenet.com / WAPForum is that they are currently using CC/PP which is an
RDF application, and that, in general, they will follow the W3S lead in
this area.
Thinksing about this, should we expect languages such as WML to reinvent
LINKs to external resource(e.g. to DC). Shouldn't they simply pull in a
modularised XML DTD which does all of this? XHTML has been modularised.
It would be interesting to see where the LINK element fits in to this new
modular structure - and whether the DC community has an interest in this.
Brian
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Andy Powell wrote:
> I've been having a quick look at WAP, the Wireless Application Protocol
> for digital mobile phones and other handheld wireless devices, and in
> particular at WML, the Wireless Markup Language. See
>
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/wml/
>
> for very quick summary.
>
> For info, WML supports the <meta> element within the <head> element,
> similar to HTML 4 - i.e. it supports the 'name', 'scheme' and 'content'
> attributes. So, any syntax for embedding DC into HTML 4 should also
> be valid in WML.
>
> However, WML does not support a <link> element. So there does *not*
> appear to be a mechanism for associating a schema URL with a set of <meta>
> tags, as in
>
> <link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/dc">
>
> There also does *not* appear to be a way to link from a WML resource to an
> external RDF description using
>
> <link rel="meta" href="something.xml">
>
> as is done, for example, from the current DCMI pages.
>
> Andy
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