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".
> 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:
<p align="center">
in English (joke!).
BTW, you write "the language form *of* the metadata". I consider the metadata
to be the stuff that goes in the bucket (eg "Naming conventions"), not the name
written on the side of the bucket (eg "DC.title").
Misha
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