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At 09:50 PM 1/31/2002 +0000, Andy Powell wrote: >A 10th draft(!) of the Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML >document is now available at > > http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc-xml-guidelines/ > >Comments are much appreciated. I hope this document can now be considered >for some kind of formal status within DCMI. I for one find this document rather confusing... > This document provides guidelines in those cases where RDF/XML is not considered appropriate. Can you explain some of these cases? I can think of several where RDF/XML is not appropriate, but the ones you are providing are not them. You're making (somewhat arbitrary) design decisions for a set of implicit functional requirements. RDF/XML is XML that provides a set of design decisions that we're hacked out by a group of people representing different communities and interested in sharing information. I think its important for you to make clear why you're choosing to do things in an alternative manner. It seems to me we take a step backwards in interoperability by advocating different design strategies when there are existing ones in place. --eric