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Belongs version of actual document DC.Title or DC.Relation?
In Denmark we are working with a "Recommended use af Dublin Core" as a national sollution of metadata. The project is part of implementation of legal deposit of electronic static publications. The project include publication of a specification of editors for making html-documents. We will use the specification in this a campaign with publishers and web-designers as target group.
We only use subelements in DC.Relation (until now):
IsVersionOf Parallel printed edition
HasPart File-list
Requires Needed software for using this document
We have a problem. We need some space in the format for Version/Release of a publication. First we don*t like to use DC.Relation because it is for relation to others documents. As we see it, it could be a part of the title. Our idea was a subelement in DC.Title:
DC.Title.Version or DC.Title.Release. E.g.:
META NAME="DC.Title" CONTENT="Textbook of metadata*
META NAME="DC.Title.Release" CONTENT="Version 2.3"
But may be DC.Relation is the right place. A proposal:
In the report of Relations Working Group you have six pairs of relations. IsPartOf make a pointer UP from a part of a document to the whole document and HasPart make a pointer DOWN to the parts. IsFormatOf/HasFormat, References/IsReferenvedBy, IsBasedOn/IsBasisFor and Requires/IsRequiredBy works in the same way. IsVersionOf is a pointer to an earlier version. But is HasVersion a pointer to a following version - or a number for the version of the actual document? Most logic is a pointer to another document.
So: I think that my proposel may be IsVersion for relation to the document itselfs, e.g.:
META NAME="DC.Relation.IsVersion" CONTENT="2.3"
and e.g.:
META NAME="DC.Relation.IsVersion" CONTENT="Second Edition"
I have exchanges emails about this question with some different people - with different views.
We have to decide in a few weeks - so comments on the list are very welcome.
regards
Leif
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