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> From [log in to unmask] Mon Jun 25 17:12 MET 2001 > X-Sender: [log in to unmask] (Unverified) > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:03:54 -0400 > From: "Diane I. Hillmann" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Agent Core? > To: [log in to unmask] > > Folks: > > Just catching up with mail after ALA and a short break, so I apologize for > the disjointedness of my replies. > > At 09:40 PM 6/24/2001 -0400, Andy wrote: > It is also interesting > >to question whether the scope includes 'discovery of agents', or just > >'description of agents to support the discovery of other kinds of > >resources'? I would disagree with a scope that was wide enough to include > >the first of these. > > I think 'description of agents to support discovery' is basically the > ability to distinguish names (variants, fuller forms, perhaps affiliation), > rather than the sorts of elements that relate to contact of agents > (addresses, etc.) Perhaps it's these distinctions that might allow us to > deal with some of this territory rather than the entire description of an > agent. > In my view there are 3 different things with agents: 1: CCP refinements. 2: Types (Persons, Organizations and the like) 3: (Type) specific vocabulary (firstName, address and such stuff) For CCP refinements MarcRelator Codes are under consideration, for 3. vCard is in use. Could we suggest to the agents wg to review state of affair first, before they start with developing new DCMI vocabulary in semantic overlap with existing one. I think it would require quite some argument, why one should change from a vCard firstName to a dcmi firstName. Cheers rs > >It is also worth noting that the scope of the DCMES, which is presumably > >narrower than the scope of DCMI, does not include agents (i.e. one can't > >describe agents using DCMES). This is implied by the fact that the > >DCMI-Type list does not include Agent (or Person), but I doubt if it is > >made explicit in any DCMES documentation - again, I find this slightly > >suprising. Perhaps I'm wrong. > > I think this is one of the many things that we "decided" but never > documented. And so it goes ... > > Diane >