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> Naomi Dushay wrote:
> > The very helpful Qualified DC XML Schemas at the dublincore website
> >
> > http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/
> >
> > have a small error. The DC terms schema
> >
> > http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/2003/04/02/dcterms.xsd
> >
> > includes RFC1766 as a complexType (for an encoding scheme). Diane
> > Hillmann informs me that this is an error: RFC3066 is the correct
> > encoding scheme now.
> >
> > Thanks for these docs, and thanks for putting up official copies on the
> > DCMI site -- we're about to start using some of them in production.
> >
> > - Naomi
> >
> > Naomi Dushay
> > National Science Digital Library
> > Cornell University
> >
> >
>
> The schema should have both RFC1766 and RFC3066 as encoding schemes.
>
> If I remember correctly, as one of the co-authors of the schema, we left the
> RFC1766 in the schema knowing that it had been deprecated, but expecting
> that some people might require it for backward compatibility.
>
> Is there even a policy for removing or deprecating terms from the DC namespaces?
No item ever will be removed.
rs
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