Andy,
As you may know the Canadian Government has adopted the DC as its'
standard. We are currently undergoing a retrofit of existing government
Internet web pages to include the core and qualified DC. The syntax for
embedding DC in HTML has always concerned me so I would like to take this
opportunity to deal with one of the issues I have been unable to clarify.
The focus is on namespace prefixes as I have seen them used in examples on
the DC site as well as the draft you have provided. The result has been the
template below. The 15 core element set is contained in the first schema,
all of the qualifiers and encoding schemes are in the second.
In your code example, section 5, the Australian AGLS as a second
schema is given a separate prefix. That is consistent with the use of
prefixes for namespaces, as I understand them, so I become confused by your
example in section 2.6.
I appreciate that the dumb-down may be in effect but would that mean
that HTML can't take advantage of the http://purl.org/dc/terms/ schema?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="eng">
<link rel="schema.dc" href="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<link rel="schema.dcterms" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
<meta name="dc.title" content=" ">
<meta name="dc.creator" content=" ">
<meta name="dcterms.language" scheme="ISO639-2" content=" ">
<!-- dates to be in YYYY-MM-DD ISO 8601 [W3CDTF] format -->
<meta name="dcterms.date.created" content=" ">
<meta name="dcterms.date.modified" content=" ">
<meta name="dcterms.subject" scheme="gccore" content=" ">
<meta name="dc.subject" content=" ">
<meta name="dc.description" content=" ">
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
Thanks
Cecil Somerton
Metadata Coordinator/Coordinateur des métadonnées
IKMD Information Resources/Ressources en information, DSGI
Health Canada/Santé Canada
Telephone/Téléphone: (613) 957-2664
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Andy Powell <[log in to unmask]> on 2002-09-27 09:21:47 AM
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Subject: Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in HTML/XHTML meta elements
For about the last two years DCMI has had a working draft entitled
"Recording qualified Dublin Core metadata in HTML meta elements". Some
time ago I think I took an action to update this document in order to try
and move it towards becoming a DCMI recommendation.
As a result I have created a more-or-less entirely new document entitled
"Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in HTML/XHTML meta elements". It is
available at
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dcq-html/
(Please note that some of the embedded images on this page are broken
because it is not being served from the dublincore.org site).
I welcome your comments on this document.
Andy
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