Thomas,
>
> > The refinements for date are in towards the end of
> > http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/dc/current-elements/,
> > starting with:
>
> I did not see them there. I did not scroll that far
> because I was on the page of elements,
>
> http://www.dublincore.org/usage/terms/dc/current-elements/
>
> and I did not know that the refinements now have become
> elements. I follow the DC lists, but it was news to me.
>
The title of the document at
http://www.dublincore.org/usage/terms/dc/current-elements/
is: "Elements and Element Refinements - a current list" so
I am not sure why you think that "refinements have now
become elements". Maybe you infer from the URL of the page
that these are only elements, but you shouldn't do that.
> Am I alone in thinking that the refinements of Date should
> be linked to Date element?
>
> >
> > Name: created
> > URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/created
> > isDefinedBy: http://purl.org/dc/terms/
> > Label: Created
> > Definition: Date of creation of the resource.
> > Term Type:
> > http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/#element-refinement
> > subPropertyOf: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date
> > Decision:
> http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/#Decision-2002-01
> > Term issued: 2000-07-11
> > Status: Recommended
>
> from that record it is not even clear that create is a
> refinement of date.
The record says:
> > subPropertyOf: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date
Is that unclear? Maybe a general explanation would help.
> Overall, it seems that this series of documents seem to imply
> a lot of change from what DC is. I am astounded not to have seen
> them discussed before they have become final. Or is this set
> of documents not final?
I think your conclusion here is wrong - this series of documents has
been produced to record the state of things as they are. It has been
noted that the current documentation is not always accurate and this
new series puts that right. The production of much of these
documents is automated so we will avoid problems that we have had
with inconsistencies across documents. As this is the first version,
there are some broken links that we need to put right; in the future
we hope to avoid these problems. Please send me your full report
off-list.
Makx.
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