On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Simon Cox wrote:
> I agree with Aaron on this.
> His first two points are very strong.
I agree also.
> My guess is that currently the largest installed base(s)
> of DC metadata are in syntaxes other than RDF.
> Ramming RDF at everyone at the /first/ point of call
> is likely to be alienating and unproductive.
> Maybe the world will comprehensively come around to RDF
> in due course, but the "rdf-first" approach is likely to come
> across as "only-rdf", and appears to tie the success or
> failure of DC to rdf rather too much.
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:59:19 -0500
> > From: Aaron Swartz <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: What is at the end of the namespace?
> >
> > On Wednesday, October 17, 2001, at 06:07 AM, Tod Matola wrote:
> >
> > > Will RDFS include links to the XHTML (HTML) prose or do we
> > do that by
> > > word of mouth (e.g., elements 1.1 spec lives at
> http://dc.org/blah and
> > some of it's markup is at http://purl.org/dc/blah or
> > http://abc.org/foo1.1).
> > Isn't nice to be able to describe the relationships of the how these
> > interact in a cononical location? Relationships are just as important
> > and hard to markup (hence the bloody state of RDDL).
>
> This is not acceptable to me. I think it is essential that when
> a human visits a DC namespace they:
>
> - DO NOT get a redirect (otherwise they will be confused about
> what the namespace is)
> - DO get a human-readable version of things
>
> I also think it's pretty important that an RDF processor get an
> RDF Schema when it visits the namespace redirects are less
> important here.
>
> Dublin Core will also be used as plain XML, which is why I think
> that RDDL would also be good to provide. It would also allow us
> to easily link to translations, etc.
>
> This is why I provided the suggestion I did. I'm willing to
> compromise on some of this, but certainly not on the first two
> bullet points (redirects and human-readability).
>
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