One of the issues that was discussed briefly at and around the f2f
meeting in Madrid was whether we should consider replicating the current
15 DCMES properties (i.e. the 15 terms in the DC namespace) in the
DCTERMS namespace. The intention being to simplify the deployment of DC
metadata by requiring only a single namespace for all the properties.
This issue is now on the agenda of the next DC Usage Board meeting in
Seattle in a couple of weeks time. A discussion paper outlining the
pros and cons of making this change is available at
http://dublincore.org/usageboardwiki/ReplicatingDCMESINDCTERMS
This paper will form the basis of our discussion. We would therefore
welcome any views that people on this list have, either about the
discussion paper or about the change itself.
Thanks,
Andy
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Head of Development, Eduserv Foundation
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