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>
> Please send your suggestions by April 15, since
> the goal date for the DC User Guide Working
> Group for redrafts to go in to the reflector is
> April 17).
>
> FYI, the next deadline for the User Guide group is
> April 30, by which date we intend to have redrafted
> guidelines distributed for general comments on Meta2.
Mary - sorry, I was off-line while travelling.
However, I have a couple of substantive comments
on the draft - hope these aren't too late:
> >4.13. Relation
> >
> >Label: RELATION
> >
> >Element Description: The relationship of this resource to other
> resources.
I think this needs to be "A related resource and its relationship to the
present resource".
> The
> >intent of this element is to provide a means to
> >express relationships among resources that have formal relationships
> to
> others,
> >but exist as discrete resources themselves. For
> >example, images in a document, chapters in a book, or items in a
> collection.
> >
> >Relationships between resources fall into a number of classes, such
> as
> >parent-child, aggregations, etc.
Insert here: "Two items of information are needed in the
content of the RELATION element in order to allow the
relationship to be completely specified: an identifier
for the related resource, and the relationship type."
> >A list of types which
> >accomodates most expected relationships is:
> >
> >
> > IsPartOf
> > HasPart
> > IsVersionOf
> > HasVersion
> > IsFormatOf
> > HasFormat
> > References
> > IsReferencedBy
> > IsBasedOn
> > IsBasisFor
> > Requires
> > IsRequiredBy
> >
> >Guidelines for content creation:
> >
> >The recommended method for expressing a relationship in unqualified
> DC is:
> >
> >IDENTIFIER = "unique identifer for the present resource"
> >RELATION = "relationship-type; unique identifer for the related
> resource"
> >
> >where "relationship-type" is a token drawn from the list above.
I'm not sure that the ";" separator has been fully agreed upon ...
For example, in the datamodel working group issues list see
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-datamodel/files/issues.html#i8
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