You are probably thinking of DCMI Period.
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-period/
However I think there should be a formal dcterms:ISO8601 syntax encoding
scheme to allow the full flexibility that standard allows, eg date
ranges, durations and recurring time intervals.
Regards
David
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Subject: best practice for date ranges
Hello!
Forgive me if this isn't the right listserv for implementation questions
- suggestions for more appropriate places to go are welcome.
I am wondering if there is any prevailing thought on how to represent a
date range, when using the W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601.
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-date uses the
definition "A point or period of time associated with an event in the
lifecycle of the resource.", and recommends
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime, but there is no guidance there on
how we might handle a period of time.
I feel like I have seen something like this within a DC date element,
but can't come up with any references:
start=2008-11-08; end=2008-11-09
Thanks in advance for any help!
Katie Dunn
Technology & Metadata Librarian
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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