On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Makx Dekkers wrote:
> I was wondering if there were any further comments on Rostislav's
> new draft. One point that I noted is that the date in the document
> has not changed from the previous version, and that it is not clear
> to me what changes were applied as a result of the discussion on the
> previous version. I would also think that the title should be
> something like "Representing Simple Dublin Core in X.500 and LDAP".
Sorry. I haven't found time to read on comment on this previously. Here
are my comments...
I'm commenting on http://runner.ascs.muni.cz/DC_Simple_in_LDAP.txt.
I think the title of this document should be
Expressing Simple Dublin Core in X.500 and LDAP
to be consistent with the other dc-architecture draft recommendations -
though it is perhaps worth noting that the proposal does not include a
mechanism for encoding the language of an element *value*. I.e. there
doesn't seem to be a mechanism for encoding the equivalent of
<dc:title xml:lang="en">An English title</dc:title>
in LDAP ?? Therefore, the proposed encoding is not a full implementation
of 'Simple Dublin Core' as defined in section 4.1 of
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc-xml-guidelines/
It might be helpful to represent the element names using all lowercase,
i.e. 'dctitle'?? This is slightly more in line with current XML and
RDF/XML usage. I presume that it is absolutely necessary to have the 'dc'
prefix before each element name?
Under Examples: in section 1., Title and Identifier should be listed as
'dcTitle' and 'dcIdentifier' (or dctitle and dcidentifier if you accept my
proposal above)?
I do not understand the Examples section in 2. It needs more explanation.
Andy
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