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Following conversations with Tom last week at ECDL, an exceptionally long flight back from Germany, and the maturing code base of Redfoot (http://redfoot.sourceforge.net), I had found myself with the time, code base and the battery life to hack together another registry prototype on the flight home. While I'm unable to go into details of this system at this time (for the daring.. the prototype is available at http://potlach.org:8000/), the following issues quickly became apparent. 1) It would be helpful to provide a set of URI's of RDF instance data that are being used and the basis for infusing the DCMI registries. 2) dcterm:mediator and dcterm:conformsTo have incorrect rdf:types http://potlach.org:8000/view?subject=http%3a//purl.org/dc/terms/mediator http://potlach.org:8000/view?subject=http%3a//purl.org/dc/terms/conformsTo These should be of <rdf:Property> not <rdfs:Property> 3) http://purl.org/dc/terms/ is of dc:relation http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-qualifiers/ this seems a bit confusing to me... I would have thought dc:source or dcq:isBasedOn would have been more accurate. This point, however, brings me to the next issue... 4) There no longer seems be a convenient machine readable RDF schema that reflects the hard won consensus resulting in the qualifiers document http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-qualifiers/. Is this correct? /terms seems to be the amalgamation of current and various future semantic declarations that are qualifiers of the semantics defined by http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/? Why then separate dcmitype? Is the current hope then to add some additional level of technology that understands application profiles that says of all of the terms... these are the ones I'm interested in for a particular application? ps: apologies in advance if I don't respond immediately... -- eric miller http://www.w3.org/people/em/ semantic web activity lead mailto:[log in to unmask] w3c world wide web consortium tel:1.614.763.1100 200 technology square, ne43-350 fax:1.208.330.5213 cambridge, ma 02139 usa