Hi Scott,
1. Are you talking about revision history as in the edition and reprint
statements that publishers put on the verso of the title page for hard copy
books?
2. Who is the audience for revision history - publisher or reader?
3. Does it need to be searchable, or is a controlled syntax needed?
I am tending to think that it is a special type of description. However you
would not want to see it as part of the description that shows in initial
search engine results - so I can understand why you think description is
not appropriate. Another option is to treat it as administrative metadata.
A third option is not to put it in metadata - ie is this information really
needed for resource discovery, or is it sufficient to be in the text of the
resource.
Regards, Prue
Prue Deacon
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Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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Folks,
I am the chair of the OASIS DocBook Subcommittee for Publishers. We are
interested in explicitly adding Dublin Core metadata support in our schema.
I'm trying to find a way to track revision history comments for each
revision of a document. There is a way to track the creation date, modified
date, but I have not found a way to put a revision comment for a particular
version of a document in Dublin Core.
Description or abstract would not be appropriate. Please let me know what
the appropriate method would be.
Also, as part of our work to add support for Dublin Core, I have created
RelaxNG Compact (RNC) versions of the dc, dcterms, and dcmitypes schemas. I
would like to support the community by donating these schemas. Please let
me know the appropriate procedure for donating this work as well!
Thanks and best regards,
-- Scott
Scott Hudson
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