On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Thomas Baker wrote:
> I agree with this. But what if they were to recommend vCard plus two new
> elements? Would those two new elements come before the Usage Board?
Yes.
> What if
> those two elements seemed to be outside the scope of the Dublin Core?
I'm struggling here! Where is the new scope statement? Assuming that the
description of Agents is within scope of DCMI, then any new elements would
come before the UB. We might say, these are not appropriate for resource
discovery (I assume that's still in our scope stratement?), in which case
we would presumably reject them.
> > The MARC relator codes are, in effect, element qualifiers taken from a
> > non-DC namespace - as with any element qualifier they are simply new
> > elements that happen to be refinements of one or more DCMES elements.
> > Again, we shouldn't be in the business of ratifying these things - though
> > we could make statements of the form "MARC relator X refines DCMES element
> > Y" ?
>
> I should think that those statements would most properly be made in the
> namespace of the MARC relator terms (Library of Congress).
Yes.
> But the
> possibility you raise is also interesting: should we be in the business
> of ratifying statements about the relationship of terms in other
> namespaces to terms in our own?
For pragmatic reasons, probably not.
> I think we can clarify our own scope and role as a group without
> constraining what working groups decide is important to do.
>
> We still need to decide, as a group, whether elements (and related
> qualifiers or controlled vocabularies) descriptive of agents fall into
> the scope of Usage Board -- irrespective of whether those elements form
> a complete "core element set" for agents.
Presumably the UB has a scope that encompasses everything that is within
the scope of DCMI ??
> Then we need to decide whether the UB would review or ratify
> statements, for example, to the effect that MARC relator terms are
> sub-properties of CCP elements.
I think that we should probably not do this.
> Tom
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