Re Misha Wolf's comments.
I was of the impression that at Canberra - Date was thought to be
just the Date of publication and was to be the one Element that
should not have subelements. Perhaps things have progressed
a little since then.
>
>Jordan Reiter has given me permission to quote his private mail:
>
>> > DC.date.created
>> > DC.date.lastModified
>> Generally, I've seen expiration information (a future event) written in
the
>> present tense, as in "date.expires"...yet there must be some way to
>> indicate the difference between future and present, don't you think?
>
>Your example may raise hackles as an expiry date does not truly fall
within the
>semantics of DC.date. That aside, I like the use of the present tense to
>indicate a future event. This approach has been used elsewhere on the
>Internet. HTTP, for example, has a header called "Expires".
The HTTP header called "Expires" needs to be used with caution. Most
Browsers (Netscape included) does not allow the Caching of any document
with "Expires" (or any similar term such as "Expiry Date") with a null
value. So if you have <META name = "Expires" contents = ""> then
this is not cached by the users Netscape. Worth bearing in mind.
>> Also,
>> what about the use of nouns/verbs from other languages? Is this
applicable
>> (and if so, must there be additional metadata indicating the language
form
>> *of* the metadata)?
>
>Though others may disagree, I don't expect to see:
>
> DC.title
>
>in a language other than English any more than I expect to see:
Looked at any South American sites lately?
regards
Arthur
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