On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Andy Powell wrote:
> our continued disablility to be able to advise people about implementing
> DC in plain XML (rather than RDF/XML) using either DTDs or XML Schemas is
> a big problem for us. Saying to people 'you made the wrong technology
> choice' is simply *not* good enough. If we find we have to say that to
> the majoritory of implementors then we made the wrong technology choice.
>
> Some guidance (even in the form of notes) about implementing DC
> (qualified and simple) in XML would be very helpful to people I would have
> thought.
Well, I thought I'd better actually do something, rather than simply
moaning about lack of guidelines... so I've written something up at
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/dc-xml-guidelines/
I'd be interested in comments, though I'll also send a note about this to
dc-architecture in due course, so comments might be better sent there.
Note that the examples may well need some work because I don't understand
XML schemas and namespaces vey well! :-(
Andy
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