I mentioned in a previous email my involvement in the OpenDocument
Technical Committee and Metadata Subcommittee. I'd like some advice or
perhaps a status update on where DC is WRT to one particular issue: the
range problem, particularly as it related to dc:creator and the dcterms
relations.
Right now, ODF is not RDF (though is very close) and it treats all
properties as string literals. I'd like to change that by using an RDF
profile (indeed, I've already written one), and allow it to be used
throughout the document. My use case, for example, is bibliographic
citation data.
I'm not sure how popular it would be within the ODF TC, but I'd like to
suggest that we treat the above properties as having ranges of a
resource. That would allow us to, for example, link a dc:creator to a
contact resource, and for the bibliographic project to create
sub-properties of it for the richer representation we need.
So is there any consensus about resolving this issue within DC? Would
it be OK to recommend the above to the ODF TC? Or better to just define
our own property?
Bruce
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