At DC-2003 and in subsequent discussion on the dc-architecture list an
issue with DCMI's RDF/XML encoding guidelines was raised that can perhaps
best be characterised as the "values as resources vs. values as strings"
issue.
For various reasons, discussion of the issue was not carried thru to a
position of concensus of any kind. In the run up to DC2004, and in an
effort to rekindle discussion about this issue, I've knocked together a
brief discussion paper that summarises the issue (at least as I see it)
and which proposes 5 alternative ways forward.
Modelling DC values as resources in RDF
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/rdf-values/
I'd be interested to hear people's views (agreement or disagreement) on
the paper and its conclusions, suggestions for alternative ways forward or
(frankly) anything else relevent to this issue.
If I put my rose-tinted specs on, then it would be nice to consider the
possibility of using the next few weeks and the meeting in Shanghai to
reach some kind of resolution of this issue??
I can dream...! :-)
Andy
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Distributed Systems, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/a.powell +44 1225 383933
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