I've finally got round to looking back thru the last set of comments on
this working draft and have put together a new version.
Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in HTML/XHTML meta elements
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dcq-html/
I hope I've taken all the relevant comments on board - plus some extra
ones! ;-)
The major changes are
- use of 'dc:' and 'dcterms:' rather then 'DC.' and 'DCTERMS.' as prefixes
for DCMI property names
- addition of 'dcterms:' prefix to encoding scheme names
- use of <link> tag for properties with a value that is a URL for another
resource
To summarise, this means that
<meta name="dcterms:modified"
scheme="dcterms:W3CDTF"
content="2003-05-05" />
<link rel="dc:relation"
href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk" />
is the recommended form, rather than
<meta name="DC.date.modified"
scheme="W3CDTF"
content="2003-05-05" />
<meta name="DC.relation"
content="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk" />
though both these forms (and other variations of case) are explicitly
stated as continuing to be acceptable (but not recommended). Therefore,
there is no problem with backwards compatability with this draft -
documents with embedded metadata that conform to previous
recommendations will continue to be conformant.
I guess these are pretty major changes, and that not everyone will be
happy with them!? However, I wanted to see what the document looked like
using the colon-separated form thoughout. My gut feeling is that it looks
much better and is much more intuitive for those people who are working
across the RDF/XML, XML and XHTML encoding syntaxes.
What do other people think?
Andy
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