On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Pete Johnston wrote:
> Slightly tangential to your proposal, but just for clarification.... Given
> that the "DC."/"dc:"/etc part of the name attribute value is sort of
> functioning as a "namespace prefix", even though syntactically it is just
> part of a string, does this imply that the term "audience" (which is in a
> separate namespace from the initial 15 terms) should be encoded in HTML
> using a different prefix?
>
> e.g. <meta name="dcterms:audience" value="....."/>
>
> (with other variants accepted in the vein Andy described)
Good point. Yes, we need to agree encoding conventions for this in HTML.
My preference would be to go with your suggestion above.
FWIW, I've updated the DC Education application profile in DC-assist
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcassist/
to give examples in the form
<meta name="DCTERMS.Audience" content="University Undergraduate">
pending further discussion about case conventions and use of '.' vs. ':'.
> And if so, will it be easy to persuade a casual simple-DC-in-HTML (I suppose
> I should say simple-DC-plus-new-terms-in-HTML) user to make that dc/dcterms
> distinction?
Dunno.
Andy
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