On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Matola,Tod wrote:
> Here is the URI for the DCES namespace
> http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
>
> and here are the proposed URIs for the DCQ and DCT namespaces
> http://purl.org/dc/qualifiers/1.0/
> http://purl.org/dc/types/1.0/
errr... I probably missed something!? The DC Qualifiers and DCMI Type
Vocabulary documents don't have version numbers - they have dates. There
is no such thing as DCQ 1.0 is there? Why aren't they
http://purl.org/dc/qualifiers/2000-07-11/
http://purl.org/dc/types/2000-07-11/
??
Andy.
> Per Eric's proposal:
>
> > and make the
> > declarations of the semantics defined in this file absolute to
> > the purl rather than relative to the file
>
> would result in the URIs for a selected set of agreed upon concepts:
> http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title
> http://purl.org/dc/qualifiers/1.0/LCSH
> http://purl.org/dc/types/1.0/Event
>
> Please respond so that we can move this issue along.
>
> Cheers Tod Matola
> Developer
> DCMI/OCLC office of research
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Miller,Eric [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:35 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [DC-ARCHITECTURE] Current Status of Dublin Core in SW
> >
> > The DCMI has only officially defined one namespace (to date).
> > http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ This URL is a PURL and (as
> > a PURL) simply
> > a name of something rather than the location of something. Currently
> > http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ resolves to
> > http://purl.org/dc/documents/rec-dces-19990702.htm.
> >
> > As a proposal to start more effectively using these schemas,
> > I would suggest
> > the following.
> >
> > 1) have http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ resolve to
> > http://dublincore.org/2000/03/13-dces# and make the
> > declarations of the semantics defined in this file absolute to
> > the purl rather than relative to the file.
> >
> > 2) introduce http://purl.org/dc/qualifiers/1.0/ and resolve this to
> > http://dublincore.org/2000/03/13-dcq# and again provide
> > absolute uris for
> > the semantics.
> >
> > 3) introduce http://purl.org/dc/types/1.0/ and resolve this to
> > http://dublincore.org/2000/03/13-dctype# again providing
> > absolute uris for
> > the semantics.
> >
> > We need namespaces for the qualifiers and types in order to start
> > semantically interoperable implementation of anything beyond DCES. Above
> is
> > a proposal for how to name these vocabularies agreed to by DCMI and what
> > application would find when resolving this name. The
> > namespaces used above have demonstrated their stability and
> > reflect both the semantics agreed upon by the community as well as the
> > prinicipals of semantic extensibility and refineability that the DCMI
> > has been advocating since day one.
> >
> >
> > --eric
> >
>
Andy
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