On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Pete Johnston wrote:

> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/collection-ap-summary/2003-08-12/

Sorry Pete, I have a few comments on this.

cld:accessControl
Shouldn't we now be using the recommended dcterms:accessRights for this?

I think that the definitions of collector and owner should use wording
that echoes the current definitions of creator, publisher and contributor
- i.e. along the lines of

An entity that has legal possession of the collection.

This leaves us in line with other elements and is more in keeping with the
flexible usage allowed by the abstract model.

For each of the properties currently listed as being in the cld namespace
I think we should ask "Is this property applicable to all resources, and
is it useful for general resource discovery?".  My suspicion is that the
answer in most cases will be "yes, yes" (though not in the case of, say,
accrualStatus).

Where the answer is "yes, yes" it seems to me that we have a candidate
property for the dcterms namespace?

I wouldn't want us to invent cld:agentName only to find that in a few
months time this is actually useful for lots of resources, not just
collections??

On the other hand, it may be that the usage board will take a dim view of
us proposing lots of new terms for the dcterms namespace, just because
they are useful for collections and on the off chance that someone might
want to use them more widely??

Andy
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