On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:56:13PM +0100, Rachel Heery wrote:
> It is also not clear to me from the summary whether the recommended
> change will make DC metadata creation more complex, whether it will
> require the value of all properties that have the class 'agent' to be URIs
> and how that would impact metadata creation and extraction tools.
>
> There might be a counter-argument that specialist inferencing engine
> would need to make special cases, and non-specialist ones would inevitably
> encounter different practices?? Maybe some allusion to benefits of getting
> it right now would be good, before much more RDF legacy data is created??
Lest there be any doubt about process, I have added the
following text to the top of the document:
DCMI is currently considering the assignment of domains
and ranges to DCMI metadata terms. Such a step would
have important implications for the interpretation of
legacy metadata. This note presents a high-level view
of the issue and its implications. No such changes will
be undertaken by DCMI until their impact has been well
understood and discussed in a public comment period.
Implementers with an opinion about the issues presented
here are invited to participate in discussion on
the DCMI Architecture Working Group mailing list
([http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-architecture.html]).
Tom
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Dr. Thomas Baker [log in to unmask]
Director, Specifications and Documentation
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
