Concatenating multiple creators into a single string value is
a vestige of early HTML practice. It is no longer recommended
by current guidelines [e.g. 1], does not fit into the DAM,
and should probably be discouraged.
If RSS 1.0 is to be revised, other issues relevant to
DC-Architecture could emerge as well.
Tom
[1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:37:50AM +0100, Hammond, Tony wrote:
> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> From: "Hammond, Tony" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:37:50 +0100
> Subject: RE: [RSS-DEV] Re: RSS Issues Wiki Moved
>
> Hi All:
>
> As an interested party (see the Nature Publishing Group newsfeeds at
> http://www.nature.com/rss) we would be more than willing to contribute to
> any revision of the RSS 1.0 spec. And there's a growing number of other
> scientific publishers adopting RSS 1.0 in order to syndicate rich
> descriptive and rights metadata along with their newsfeeds. They may also be
> interested in contributing.
>
> One immediate problem that we have encountered with the current RSS 1.0 spec
> is the restriction on repeating properies. This is too restrictive and so we
> have just had to ignore it. In our tables of contents feeds we list an
> atricle's authors as
>
> <dc:creator>Author, A.</dc:creator>
> <dc:creator>Author, B.</dc:creator>
> <dc:creator>Author, C.</dc:creator>
>
> rather than
>
> <dc:creator>Author, A., Author, B., Author, C.</dc:creator>
>
> so that we can fully express the data using the RDF model.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony
>
>
> Tony Hammond
>
> New Technology, Nature Publishing Group
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