Quoting Andy Powell <[log in to unmask]>:
> # Finalise revisions to the Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML
> document in order that it includes an explicit mechanism for encoding value
> URIs and provides two container elements for DC descriptions, probably called
> <dcxml:description> and <dcxml:descriptionSet>. Revise DCMI XML schemas
> accordingly.
I guess the work I've been doing really extends beyond this, so I'd like to add:
# Develop an XML binding for Dublin Core metadata which supports all (? or a
substantial subset) of the features of the DCMI Abstract Model.
While the task outlined above can be done, I don't think it addresses other
underlying problems with the current binding - which after all, we have to
remember is based _not_ on the DCMI Abstract Model, but on some simpler models
which preceded the DCAM.
Also it would seem "politically" A Good Thing to be able to point to an XML
binding which supports all the features of the DCAM.
Whether such a full-DCAM-XML-binding exists alongside another XML binding for DC
metadata is a topic for discussion.
> # Finalise revisions to the Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata
> Initiative (DCMI) to align use of terminology with other DCMI
> recommendations.
>
> (all the above are carried forward from this year)
>
> # Evaluate use of GRDDL as mechanism for transforming arbitrary DC/XML
> documents into RDF (DCMI Abstract Model)
>
> # Monitor W3C developments for encoding RDF in XHTML and revise current
> DC/XHTML guidelines as necessary.
Also I'd like to see us look at representing Box/Period/Point in DCAM/RDF (which
Alistair Miles asked about last year too). See
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0507&L=dc-architecture&P=1490
Pete
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