I wouldn't disagree with this point Chaals.
But for me its an issue that there seem to
be two completely different halves of the
world doing seemingly completely different
non-integratable systems.  It isn't clear to me
what the highest common denominator between the
two technology worlds is but
I do think we should look for it - with great care
of course.

andy

> Well, in some cases it might be better to map to what other folks are
> already doing than to recreate it.
>
> There is always a difficulty in taking things from XML vocabularies to RDF
> vocabularies (and vice versa) of course, since they are different in some
> important ways that authors need to bear in mind.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chaals
>
> On Sun, 29 May 2005 16:36:49 +0200, Andy Heath <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> This is pleasing to see Lisa and I agree with
>> you that its good to harmonise these things
>> across the Meta-data efforts if we can.
>
>
>>> Anyway, I am putting a table together of  what roles we have in mind and
>>> related concepts. It seems to me that  other groups should be mapping it
>>> to other meta data, and then I will encode that in as a related concept,
>>> and everything will work together... (OK that may be a "bit" naive,  but
>>> it may be a good step in that direction)
>
>
>
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