On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Andy Powell wrote:
>
> I don't understand why people would use URI, given that you have URN and
> URL?
>
> I presume you are recommending something like
>
> <META NAME="DC.Identifier" SCHEME="URL" CONTENT="http://.../">
>
> I would have thought that the explicit SCHEME="URL" or SCHEME="URN" bit
> was unnecessary? I.e. that you would only use SCHEME to indicate
> something other than a URI??
>
> > Format scheme:
> > MIME types: <LINK REL=IMT HREF"ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2046.txt">
>
> Question... for DC embedded into HTML why recommend embedding a URI using
> DC.Identifier and a MIME type using DC.Format at all? The URL is implicit
> and the MIME type is typically served by the Web server??
>
well it doesn't harm to state all of this explicitly and it may be useful
to have this information available, for example when one would wish to
extract the metadata and re-use it in another (non-web) environment.
> > what would you recommned?
>
> Are you developing harvesting tools that make use of all these embedded
> <LINK REL> tags?
>
the crawler we are using in DONOR (AV) will not make use of these embedded
<LINK REL> tags.
we only recommend to use these tags in anticipation of future use.
gr., Titia
gr., Titia
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