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> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:16:27 -0000
> From: Pete Johnston <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Announcement: new version of DCMI Web site published today (2003-03-03)
> Comments: To: Bernhard Eversberg <[log in to unmask]>
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> Bernhard,
>
> > Thoroughly impressive though this document is, there's still
> > one thing I'd like to point out. Is there a way to encode the
> > fact that an element content conforms to a code of rules,
> > like AACR2? This is not an encoding scheme since it would not
> > necessarily mean that the element content, for example a
> > name, would be taken from an authority file.
>
> This isn't really a full answer to your question but I just wanted to
> emphasise that:
>
> DCMI Encoding Scheme != Controlled vocabulary/Enumerated list/Authority
> file
>
> _Some_ DCMI Encoding Schemes do fall into the category of Controlled
> vocabulary/Enumerated list/Authority file; other schemes indicate that a
> value can be interpreted according to a specified set of
> formatting/parsing rules.
>
> That second subclass of Encoding Scheme is described here
>
> http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/
>
> as a "syntax encoding scheme".
>
> And it seems to me that AACR2 may fall into this second category (but
> someone with more of a library background may be able to point out why
> it doesn't, so treat my assertion with caution!), and on this basis
> AACR2 _could_ be an Encoding Scheme (or maybe it would be necessary to
> specify _multiple_ AACR2-based Encoding Schemes for different rule sets
> for different elements covered within AACR2... not sure about that!) -
> but at the moment it isn't one of the schemes to which DC has assigned a
> URI.
I take Bernhards mail as a request to register AACR2 -
HarryW: What about the state of the art with dc-registry?
Is it open for issuing registration requests formally already?
rs
>
> Pete
>
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