On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Andy Powell wrote:
> Surely this is a red-herring? (Possibly one from the herring festival at
> the Helsinki workshop :-)). The 'stable standard' you refer to is
> effectively an 'application profile' - the application of a particular set
> of metadata terms at a particular point in time. Such a 'standard' will
> be defined in a document (an example is the DCMES 1.1 document), or
> possibly in some machine readable way... it has nothing to do with the
> namespace URI.
We are not disagreeing. The idea of making snapshots available with
stable URIs would be strictly for "documentary" purposes -- I didn't
mean to imply that those stable URIs would be *namespace* URIs.
> When someone says "this software conforms to DCMES 1.1" they should
> provide the URI for a document (human and/or machine readable) that
> defines DCMES 1.1, *not* a namespace URI.
Right -- or a static snapshot documenting the state of the namespace
at a particular time.
Tom
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