On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Andy Powell wrote:
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> http://dublincore.org/architecturewiki/DCPropertyDomainsRanges
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> Given that this discussion is largely about semantics, we agreed at
> todays Usage Board teleconf, that discussion about this list would move
> into the remit of the UB. However, that doesn't mean that we aren't
> interested in people's views. So, if you have comments on the above
> document, please share them here.
I think it would be useful to clarify to this list the underlying purpose
of this exercise and the benefits. Or is this being done in a spirit of
'enabling' unknown future benefits??
As I understand it the aim of the exercise is to make precise distinctions
about the "value space" of a property in machine-processable definitions.
And that this is being done to indicate what can be inferred when a
particular property is used in a triple.
Can someone perhaps give some use cases of how this would be beneficial??
My concern would be that the accuracy of the values in manually crafted DC
metadata would not support inference. DC metadata, as I see it, is
intended to provide 'cheap and cheerful' minimal level descriptive
metadata. Would any application want to start making inferences over such
metadata?
On the other hand if the intention is to be able to merge data from
different sources on a 'partial understanding' basis I would be more
convinced of the benefit...
Rachel
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