On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Weibel,Stu wrote:
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> The single most important asset of the Dublin Core is the consensus
> that has been developed around it. No one should imagine that that
> consensus will be discarded easily or lightly.
It seems to me there is some confusion as to whether the consensus is the
decisions made at the last meeting, or the consensus reached on the
mailing list. Probably somewhere in between! This is not a problem unique
to DC. Perhaps it calls for some 'moderated decision-making' on the list?
And perhaps some guidelines on reasonable turnaround for comment? I'd say
a week isn't long enough...(Jon :-)
A couple of general comments on the User Guide:
1. The User guide seems to embody a natural tendency for the simple to get
complicated. But are we at the stage yet when that should happen? I think
the 'development' of DC needs to be informed by implementation, and for
any widescale implementation there has to be some confidence in stability.
There needs to be some assurance of onwards compatibility for all but the
smallest pilot.
2. Could the information contained in a succinct way (in e.g.flags,
defaults ) be dealt with at least at this stage by the simpler human
readable role=, scheme= etc. Perhaps what I am looking for is the Simple
User Guide....
3.I am interested (surprised) that the User guide has an ambition for use
of DC for description of hard copy, musical scores etc. I can't envisage
embedding such descriptions in HTML? Surely there are other solutions for
'simple standalone records' for books etc......like pseudo-MARC?
> Stay tuned for further developments.
Well, it can't be less than 10 data elements... so you're going for more
again?
See you in Lund
Rachel
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