On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:10:26AM +0100, Pete Johnston wrote:
> > Yes, I agree.  We only need the dcterms:URI DC encoding
> > scheme - the URI scheme and the structure of the URI tell the
> > processing application everything else it needs to know.
>
> ... and further in many (maybe not all, but many) cases where URIs
> appear in representations of DC metadata, we won't even need to deploy
> the dcterms:URI encoding scheme to indicate that those strings are in
> fact URIs. Their "URI-ness" will be signalled by some syntactic
> mechanism which indicates that those strings are "resource URIs" or
> "value URIs", _not_ (IMHO) by the use of the dcterms:URI encoding
> scheme.

Thank you for noticing that this needs clarification.  I was
finding that apparent redundancy to be somewhat confusing
and assume others could find it confusing as well.

In the Abstract Model, the role of dcterms:URI is mentioned
in Appendix C, but the issue should perhaps be addressed in
other contexts as well.

Tom

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