On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Wagner,Harry wrote:
> > For sure, it is somewhat confusing that the RDFS forces a
> > 'definition' of
> > a term
> > into a field tagged 'comment'. I'm not sure if there is
> > anything happening
> > within the W3C RDFS activity, or in DAML-OIL that might help?
> > Are there
> > proposals tthat would enable a 'definition' tag as well as a 'comment'
> > tag??
>
> If we want to keep a 'description' tag seperate from the 'comment' tag we
Note: the issue is with 'definition' vs. 'comment' (not 'description' vs.
'comment').
> should choose a better mechanism than 'eor:comment'. Our registry is going
> to infuse schemas from other resource communities, right? I doubt they will
> use 'eor:comment" for this purpose.
I think Rachel was asking if there were other mechanisms for doing this -
in DAML-OIL for example. I think you are both in agreement that
eor:comment is the wrong approach!
> > As I see it any expression of a schema would usefully contain
> > this sort of
> > administrative metadata... such as who wrote it, significant
> > dates, name
> > of vocabulary etc. Are you suggesting we use another prefix
> > for the tag
> > or remove all the information?
>
> I don't see a reason to have it. This information is for human consumption
> and could be conveyed by the registry without it being part of the schema.
> If we do make it part of the schema we should pick a better way identify it
> as a schema than 'eor:Schema'. Again, we don't expect anyone else to code
> this in their schema do we?
My guess is that if it is valuable to have this kind of information in a
human-readable document, then it is going to be just as valuable to have
it in a machine-readable schema?
If the information we want to provide about the schema is really along the
lines of significant dates, who created it, the name of the schema, etc.
then why don't we use dc:date, dc:creator and dc:title for goodness sake -
i.e. use DC metadata to describe the schema!?
Andy
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