On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:50:03 +0000, Andy Powell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>As you say, the RDF encoding of DC can integrate seemlessly with the RDF
>encoding of SKOS... but an SKOS concept scheme could *not* be used in
>place of a DC vocabulary encoding scheme in our XHTML or XML syntaxes.
True, but that's a limitation of those syntaxes (specifically their lack of support for multiple descriptions).
I feel a bit uneasy about arguing that the designers of other ontologies need to consider DC's modelling "style" when making their modelling decisions; I'd definitely feel uneasy making that argument on the basis of the limitations of two formats that we already acknowledge don't implement the DCAM fully.
Pete
>Therefore, people who want to use existing SKOS concept schemes in XHTML
>and/or XML will have to find a way of declaring an additional vocabulary
>encoding scheme in order to do that.
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