On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Aaron Swartz wrote:
> Speaking with Tod f2f today he indicated that he was against the use of
> PURLs in namespaces and preferred dublincore.org, he also mentioned that the
> dash (-) instead of a slash (/) could be changed to make more sense.
>
> I disagree and suggest that we stick with the URIs that DC has (or had)
> already put in place:
I tend agree with Tod.... tho I think *all* DCMI namespaces should start
http://dublincore.org/
My reasoning is that otherwise I think there is confusion as to whether
the 'namespace' is purl.org rather than anything to do with DCMI
I admit this may be influenced by a slightly different perspective I have
on what a namespace implies, in particular I see a namespace as providing
some authoritative statement of a limited and defined element set ..... as
I said before I think we need to have parallel debate about what it is we
are naming, whether the concept of an extensible vocabulary, a human
readable definition of the semantics of particular elements or a schema
expressed in a particular schema language.
Rachel
>
> http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
> http://purl.org/dc/qualifiers/1.0/
>
> People understand and have come to expect this -- to change it would be
> wrong.
>
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