Thanks for the work on this. Remind me where (4), (5) and (6) came from
though -- was this discussion in Madeira? We don't have these as
existing deliverables on the WG schedule... --dan
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Rachel Heery wrote:
> I took an action from the DC-AC Madeira meeting to recommend a list of
> deliverables that it would be helpful to have from the DC-Architecture WG
> prior to the DC Tools meeting planned for later this year.
>
> This is what I have come up with, (after consultation with
> colleagues). At this stage we felt it would be helpful to agree what is on
> the 'to do' list.... ok I know that is just list making!
>
> I realise we are 'nearly there' with some of these i.e. we have some
> schemas on EOR but they need going over to ensure they are precise , for
> example that they match the agreed qualifiers. Also to make them into
> 'specs'.
>
> We here at UKOLN would be happy to check out and finalise existing work
> done (i.e. Eric's EOR DCQ schema, If that is ok with Eric. ) and produce
> specs for say (2) and (4). We need these to proceed with the SCHEMAS
> registry and the DC registry too.
>
> 1. Unique 'namespace' URIs are required for all DC elements, recommended
> qualifiers (both element refinements and encoding schemes). The namespace
> URIs are required as 'canonical' URIs for these particular DC entities.
> They need to be resolvable to RDF schema(s).
> [.... under discussion now on the list]
>
> 2. Canonical expression of DC schema in RDF schema language (with
> canonical URI to identify this expression of the schema)
>
> 3. Specification as to how to create DC instance metadata
> (including elements, qualifiers and schemes) in RDF/XML as per
> the schema in (2)
>
> 4. Canonical expression of DC schema in XML schema language (with
> canonical URI to identify this expression of the schema)
>
> 5. Canonical expression of DC schema in XML DTD, *not* expressed as
> RDF/XML.
>
> 6. Specification as to how to create DC instance metadata (including
> elements, qualifiers and schemes) in XML as per the schema in (4) and DTD
> in (5).(I do hope it would look the same!) This instance metadata to be
> XML compliant, but not RDF/XML compliant.
>
> 7. Specification as to how to create DC instance metadata
> (including elements, qualifiers and schemes) using HTML METAtags.
>
> 8. Discussion document on best way to deal with 'structured values' in
> HTML, XML, XML/RDF instance metadata. As an example, is the following good
> practice:
> (ref AP's mail of 31 January
> <rdf:Description about="">
> <dc:creator>
> <dct:person>
> <vcard:fn>Andy Powell</vcard:fn>
> <vcard:email>[log in to unmask]</vcard:email>
> </dct:person>
> <rdf:value>Andy Powell</rdf:value>
> </dc:creator>
> </rdf:Description>
>
>
> Rachel
>
>
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> Rachel Heery
> UKOLN (UK Office for Library and Information Networking)
> University of Bath tel: +44 (0)1225 826724
> Bath, BA2 7AY, UK fax: +44 (0)1225 826838
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
>
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