Siggy wrote:
> Yes it does Relation Type does that. But what we are up to in DC is
> specifying what I would like to call compact form, things that are
> expressable in that old dot-format.
There is nothing in the current proposal that stops you from using the dot
notation for qualified DC. For example:
<meta name="DC.Relation.Identifier"
content="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements">
<meta name="DC.Relation.Type" content="IsBasedOn">
[...]
> Could you, please, tell me why Relation need the subelement identifier,
> when the basic RFC-1 says that that is what unqualified Relation
> should contain (sorry Stu, we still need that word).
The current Internet Draft [1] says:
3.13. Relation Label: "Relation"
An identifier of a second resource and its relationship to the present
resource. This element permits links between related resources and
resource descriptions to be indicated. Examples include an edition of
a work (IsVersionOf), a translation of a work (IsBasedOn), a chapter
of a book (IsPartOf), and a mechanical transformation of a dataset into
an image (IsFormatOf). For the sake of interoperability, relationships
should be selected from an enumerated list that is currently under
development in the workshop series.
Please indicate the words which discuss sub-elements.
The D-Lib article "DC-5: The Helsinki Metadata Workshop" suggested the
following for unqualified DC:
"IsBasedOn, http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements"
Using HTML's Meta element, this becomes:
<meta name="DC.Relation"
content="IsBasedOn, http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements">
Since then, it has been suggested that the "," is unnecessary, so we get:
<meta name="DC.Relation"
content="IsBasedOn http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements">
[1] http://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-kunze-dc-02.txt
[2] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february98/02weibel.html
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