Renato wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Misha Wolf wrote:
>
> > I have had a play with Reggie and it is very impressive.
>
> Thanks ;-)
>
> > One issue concerns me, though. Reggie makes no distinction between aspects
> > of DC which have been agreed by the DC community (ie unqualified DC) and
> > aspects about which there is currently no agreement within the DC community
> > (ie qualified DC). This is likely to lead to a lot of controversy and
> > confusion.
>
> I don't think it is likely to lead to controversy and confusion.
> We already have controversy and confusion!
What is absolutely clear is that we (the DC community) have, more or less,
agreed on unqualified DC, ie the fifteen elements, and that we have not,
even remotely, agreed on qualified DC. To say this does not add to the
total amount of confusion. For Reggie to present unqualified and qualified
DC as if they somehow had the same level of credibility *does* add to the
confusion and to the controversy.
> The problem is that we, as a community, need to sign-off on what
> qualified DC is and what it supports.
>
> The working groups:
> http://purl.oclc.org/metadata/dublin_core/wouk_groups.html
> need to present/summarise their findings to Meta2 and then
> we can write the qualified DC RFC.
>
> Most DC creation tools, like Reggie, have taken liberties as to
> what qualified DC is.
>
> > When converting qualified DC to RDF, Reggie generates RDF which differs
> > greatly from the approach taken by the DC Data Model WG. I fear that this
> > may substantially hinder the adoption of both DC and RDF.
>
> We are fixing that now (I assume you mean the RDF:Description tag
> we left off?)
What I mean is that the RDF property types that Reggie uses for qualified DC
are quite different from the corresponding property types agreed by the DC
Data Model WG. Maybe I've missed something, but it was my impression that
one of the main purposes of this WG is to define the data model and its
representation in RDF. If you disagree with our decisions, please speak up.
After all, you are a WG member.
> Cheers... Renato
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