Apologies if this has come up before...
I currently have date ranges in DC.Coverage.Temporal which are only precise to the nearest year, eg. 1901-1933 and, being dates, the appropriate scheme a la DCQ would be W3C-DTF.
Wherever dates are discussed in DCMI documents (eg. DCMI Period Encoding Scheme [1] and Date Element Working Draft [2]) , they say present date ranges using a slash between the start/end date, eg. 1901/1933 "as per" the W3C technical note specification [3]. So I looked at the W3C note but it doesn't mention ranges of dates, only single date formats.
Have I read the W3C note wrong or does it only define a subset of formats while the rest of ISO 8601 still applies?
Thanx,
Douglas
[1] http://purl.org/dc/documents/dcmi-period
[2] http://purl.org/dc/core/documents/wd-date-current.htm
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
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