John Kunze:
| Of course "Identifier" is a legal name, but I wouldn't design metadata
| this way. Leaving the name as Identifier for now, imagine the provider
| at the controls of a metadata-aware record input form:
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| ELEMENT INSTRUCTIONS
| Author: _________________ names go here, family name first
| Identifier: _____________ identifiers go here (for the resource)
| Relation: _______________ identifiers go here too (a related resource)
| Description: ____________ identifiers or words go here
| ...
I first wrote:
This is either a faulty input interface or bad instructions. Identifier
is a qualifier of Relation, and Description is not a DC element. It is
an interesting question whether Relation has any content as defined in
http://www.oclc.org:5046/oclc/research/conferences/metadata/dublin_core_report.html
but that's another matter.
And then looked again. The example given is
Relation (type=ContainedIn) (identifier = URL) = http://www.elsevier.nl/
and this does seem odd. I suggest that the problem is with this
provisional syntax for Relation (not the name of Identifier).
Better would be
Relation (identifier = URL:http://www.elsevier.nl/) = ContainedIn
so that the content of Relation names the relationship expressed.
If it is desired to avoid problems with identifiers that are not
self-identifying as to scheme,
Relation (type = URL) (identifier = http://etc) = ContainedIn
would work.
How has Relation actually been used?
Description are
| The problem is that the element name/label "Identifier" conveys nothing
| that uniquely distinguishes its content from that of the other elements.
|
| > > Similarly, a central tenet of the Warwick Framework would have to be
| > > dropped, since the WF calls for referencing (via URIs) a variety of
| > > objects from a variety of elements.
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| The WF linkage metadata element for linking from within a record out to
| external content is what was referring to, however, looking at it again,
| I withdraw this argument as I'm no longer sure I fully understand how
| generally it applies.
|
| -John
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Regards,
Terry Allen Fujitsu Software Corp. [log in to unmask]
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