On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Rachel Heery wrote:
> > Again, yes! If they are not, then we lose the ability to dumb-down and
> > therefore much of our basis for interoperability.
>
> Here i am referring to the discussion at
>
> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0110&L=dc-usage&F=&S=&P=2730
>
> I think the issue arose as refinements are now identified by the same
> namespace as elements so there is no means of distingguishing
> refinements by their URI. Nor by the human readable name in some
> cases. I think some people have made the next step, that there is no
> distinction between elements and refinements, they are all 'terms'
They are all terms. But some of the terms are sub-properties of other
terms! It makes no difference if you can distinguish them using the
namespace URI, nor if you can tell from the instance metadata. That's why
we need schemas!
Andy
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