In line with the first observation below, the new XHTML spec
(http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/) also requires lower-case. This
does seem to be an issue we have to resolve.
Steven C. Perkins
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Paul Miller wrote:
>
> 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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