I'm sympathetic to the argument that unapproved qualifiers should not be
given defacto endorsement in the the HTML draft, but at the same time, we
all know that virtually all DC implementations use some form of qualifiers,
and it is important that John's document give the best guidance that we can
to support this syntactically, even if we don't agree on the qualifier
semantics.
stu
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Miller [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 8:52 AM
To: John A. Kunze; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: [dchtml] new (18 May) draft
John, a few brief comments on your latest draft, which I liked a lot.
In Section 4, you specifically state that the first letter of the Dublin
Core element be capitalised. This is in line with current practice, and is
the way we've just about always done things.
*However*, with growing interest in the encoding of Dublin Core in RDF as an
alternative (*not* a replacement) to HTML, we hit what may be a problem.
Unlike HTML, the XML syntax used to encode RDF descriptions is case
sensitive. In line with best practice in the RDF community, the
recommendation is that DC element names expressed in RDF be given all in
lower case. There is an obvious contradiction here between the HTML
recommendation (where case doesn't really matter anyway) and that for RDF
(where 'creator' and 'Creator' may well be two entirely different things).
Perhaps we should either resolve this contradiction one way or the other,
tone down your recommendation, or include a brief mention of the possible
problem?
In line with Gisle and others, I don't like the title of Section 7. Some of
the suggested changes are good. As Andy and others have mentioned, I'd be
*very* careful about the inclusion of Qualifiers, though. You're on safer
ground with the other sections, but you run the risk at the moment of making
many of your example qualifiers look as 'official' or 'approved' as the rest
of your document; which they're clearly not.
Paul
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