John Kunze and I just had this conversation on the phone... what are the
boundaries of the 15 element set.
I am of the opinion that pragmatics are more valuable than principle
here, so I come down on the side of 15 elements and a small number of
sub elements.
I also would very much like further well-reasoned opinions on which way
to jump with Relation:
a.) a small number (4?) of explicit attribute types (Relation.IsPartOf,
Relation.HasPart...etc.)
b.) exactly 2 attributes for all time (Relation.Type, Relation.Target)
with enumerated lists of types... perhaps a DC default list and then any
scheme-qualified lists that others come up with. If so, what is the
minimum, default list for DC-Simple?
Mary Laarsgard is writing the simplified rendition of coverage, so we're
fine there...
I still need official list of Types and Formats
stu
-----Original Message-----
From: Rachel Heery [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 10:03 AM
To: Jul,Erik
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Toward DC-Simple
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Jul,Erik wrote:
>
> I wonder if we are of one mind regarding DC-Simple, which I
understand
> to mean the set of fifteen Dublin Core elements and their
definitions.
Of one mind? I doubt it.
Your interpretation does not seem to be the message from Stu's
'urgent'
mail which woke us all up.... he seemed to be saying DC-Simple
was the 15
plus a very limited number of sub-elements. I think it is worth
trying to
achieve this for the reasons given in the introductory
paragraphs of the
proposed document i.e. these are commonly required sub-elements
that need
standard labels
>
> All other additions would belong to some version of
DC-"whatever," but
> *not* DC-Simple.
>
We could say that DC is the 15 elements, and that DC-Simple is
these 15
plus simple sub-elements?
Rachel
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