I agree with Aaron on this.
His first two points are very strong.
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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