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.
Pete
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