On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Wagner,Harry wrote:
> I've no idea what the history behind this is, but this dates back to at
> least 2000/03/13. Possibly much earlier. See
> http://dublincore.org/2000/03/13/dcq
The schema dates back that far. But the DCTERMS URI has only existed
fairly recently, so someone added the Purl redirect to that schema fairly
recently I assume?
> > I'm not sure when or how this schema got put in place but I would strongly
> > suggest that the purl.org resolver configuration is changed so that the
> > DCTERMS namespace URI does *not* resolve to this schema. Please can we
> > make the DCTERMS namespace URI not resolve to anything until we have
> > agreed what it should resolve to. This should happen now (or as soon as
> > possible). Apologies if I missed a decision somewhere!?
>
> With all due respect, this decision has to be made by one of my many bosses.
> This may break applications and people will scream bloody murder about it
> being done. My apologies if you are one of my many bosses :)
Any application that relies on there being an RDF schema at
http://purl.org/dc/dcterms/ is broken (especially given that the schema at
that URL is broken). Is there an email message announcing that DCMI will
host an RDF schema at that URI? Has there ever been a public committment
by DCMI to host an RDF schema at http://purl.org/dc/dcterms/ ?? (Note: it
is perfectly possible that there have been such committments and I missed
them or have forgotten about them. If so, apologies).
> > http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/ -> http://dublincore.org/2001/08/14/dctype#
> >
> > This schema contains the term 'Resource' which has never been approved by
> > DCMI.
>
> Same issue as dcq. See http://dublincore.org/2000/03/13/dctype
Again, the http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/ URI has only existed fairly
recently. The schema is old, but placing it at that namespace URI is
recent.
Andy
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