On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Pete Johnston wrote:
> So I'm arguing that we do _not_ use DC encoding schemes to provide this
> information. After all, for the purposes of de-referencing, http: URIs
> and ftp: URIs require different application behaviour, but we aren't (I
> hope!) proposing that they require different DC encoding schemes when
> they appear as identifiers in DC metadata.
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.
Andy
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