Some thoughts on some of the recent qualifier issues on the list.
Apologies for the timing of these comments and for bringing together
several different (but related) threads into a single message. Some of
these have probably been aired before...
1) The explicit use of a Name suffix on some sub-elements seems
unnecessary (or worse)? So we currently have (coming out of the
sub-elements group):
Creator.PersonalName
Creator.CorporateName
Creator.PersonalName.Address
Creator.CorporateName.Address
Publisher.PersonalName
Publisher.CorporateName
Publisher.PersonalName.Address
Publisher.CorporateName.Address
Contributor.PersonalName
Contributor.CorporateName
Coverage.PeriodName
Coverage.PlaceName
rather than
Creator.Person
Creator.Organization
Creator.Person.Address
Creator.Organization.Address
Publisher.Person
Publisher.Organization
Publisher.Person.Address
Publisher.Organization.Address
Contributor.Person
Contributor.Organization
Coverage.Period
Coverage.Place
Organization seems better than Corporation/CorporateName - as it is more
general??
2) In terms of embedded HTML META tag syntax, the proposal to have a Type
sub-element for Relation as in:
DC.Relation.Type: isPartOf
DC.Relation.Identifier: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
is not consistent with the proposed usage of other sub-elements.
DC.Relation.isPartOf: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
is consistent and embeds into HTML much better because it is one
tag rather than two.
3) The proposal to embed both sub-element and value into a DC-Simple
(whatever that is!) value, as in
DC.Relation: isPartOf; http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
may lead to long term confusion over what is best practice?
4) RFC-3 (Qualified Dublin Core Metadata for Simple Resource Discovery)
doesn't say much about SCHEMEs. In particular we haven't got a core list
of SCHEMEs formally documented anywhere to go with the core list of
sub-elements. These are nicely brought together at the moment in
Rebecca's document at
http://www.loc.gov/marc/dcqualif.html
Andy.
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