Folks,
The Treasury Board Secretariat is working to complete the fifth version of the "Metadata Implementation Guidelines for Web Resources" that will include encoding examples of the Dublin Core. Would it be possible to obtain a status update on "replicating all the current terms in the DC namespace into the DCTERMS namespace" since it will have an affect on the examples in our Guidelines? We are particularly interested in the time lines for adoption of such a Namespace change by the DCMI as it will affect implementation planning for the DC specification across the Government of Canada.
Thank-you
Cecil E. Somerton
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From: DCMI Architecture Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Powell
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2005 6:14 AM
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Subject: Namespace policy - DC and DCTERMS namespaces (was agenda for DC arch meeting)
I note Misha's concerns about the implementation problems caused by our
use of separate DC and DCTERMS namespaces.
The draft revision to the namespace policy explicitly says
Term URIs are grouped into DCMI namespaces in order to ease the
assignment of URIs to terms and to streamline their use in particular
encoding syntaxes
yet we quite clearly haven't done this in the case of the DC and DCTERMS
namespaces, where we have kept two namespaces simply for historical
reasons.
Under item 2, I will therefore suggest that we consider replicating all
the current terms in the DC namespace into the DCTERMS namespace (allowing
the use of a single namespace by many DC applications), using RDFS to
explciitly declare equivalences between the old DC terms and the new
DCTERMS terms.
Your thoughts on this would be appreciated.
Andy.
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Andy Powell wrote:
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/namespace-policy/
>>>
>>> 2 Discussion about revising the "DCMI Namespace Policy" recommendation
Andy
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