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John Kunze and I just had this conversation on the phone... what are the
boundaries of the 15 element set.

I am of the opinion that pragmatics are more valuable than principle
here, so I come down on the side of 15 elements and a small number of
sub elements.

I also would very much like further well-reasoned opinions on which way
to jump with Relation:

a.) a small number (4?) of explicit attribute types (Relation.IsPartOf,
Relation.HasPart...etc.) 

b.) exactly 2 attributes for all time (Relation.Type, Relation.Target)
with enumerated lists of types... perhaps a DC default list and then any
scheme-qualified lists that others come up with.  If so, what is the
minimum, default list for DC-Simple?

Mary Laarsgard is writing the simplified rendition of coverage, so we're
fine there...

I still need official list of Types and Formats

stu


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Rachel Heery [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
	Sent:	Wednesday, January 28, 1998 10:03 AM
	To:	Jul,Erik
	Cc:	[log in to unmask]
	Subject:	Re: Toward DC-Simple

	On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Jul,Erik wrote:

	> 
	> I wonder if we are of one mind regarding DC-Simple, which I
understand
	> to mean the set of fifteen Dublin Core elements and their
definitions.

	Of one mind? I doubt it.

	Your interpretation does not seem to be the message from Stu's
'urgent'
	mail which woke us all up.... he seemed to be saying DC-Simple
was the 15
	plus a very limited number of sub-elements.  I think it is worth
trying to
	achieve this for the reasons given in the introductory
paragraphs of the
	proposed document i.e. these are commonly required sub-elements
that need
	standard labels

	> 
	> All other additions would belong to some version of
DC-"whatever," but
	> *not* DC-Simple.
	> 

	We could say that DC is the 15 elements, and that DC-Simple is
these 15
	plus simple sub-elements? 

	Rachel

	 

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