On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Thomas Baker wrote:
> If you are suggesting that Status be removed from the DCMI
> term declaration, this is consistent with my earlier assumption
> that status should be expressed as an annotation. So I would not
> see it as "background information" but as something else, but at
> any rate not part of the term declaration.
OK...
>
> > If that is not agreed, and it is to remain an attribute, I propose that we
> > need a recommendation document to be approved in order to clarify what
> > these terms mean, how terms move from one status to another etc
>
> This is covered in
> http://128.253.121.110/DC-UB/DC-UBprocess8.html, especially
> section 3.1 -- the three categories of "recommended" status
> (Cross-Domain, Domain-Specific, and Obsolete) -- and section 5
> on "proposals for recommendations". This updated document will
> reside at http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/ when
> the Web site is rebuilt.
I was more concerned with advice to the cataloguer/implementor as to what
they need to know in relation to using a 'domain-specific' term. In
practice as I understand it there is no restrictin on use of the terms,
nor recommendation that the term should be used in a particular domain.
So the gist of the documentation I had in mind would be: The status tells
the user from which domain the term came... and therfore in which domain
the term might prove useful. But DCMI does not in any way recommend that
domain specific terms are restricted to a particular domain.
In order to inform the metadata creator it might also be helpful for the
annotation to record the name of the domain?
Rachel
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