Ron Daniel wrote:
> on section 2.1
> The datamodel working group of the Dublin Core has recommended that
> the URI http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.0/ be the one for the XML
> namespace used for the 15 Dublin Core elements. That decision has
> not been ratified by the community as a whole, but it might be better
> to replace the ftp.isi.edu URL with this one.
That sounds reasonable. Any guess on how long it'll take to get ratified?
> Assume an XML document describes itself with some embedded
> DC.
> It is allowed, but not required, to have a dc:Identifier that holds
> the
> URI of the XML document. I'm not sure of WebDAV's handling of
> implicit
> identifiers, so you may want to say something on this point.
I'm not sure what you mean by implicit identifiers. An XML document stored
as a WebDAV property does not have a URI--WebDAV properties are not
resources. Does that answer the question?
> 2.3
> The Dublin Core datamaldel WG has been looking into issues of
> repetition of
> property values. That working group is making a schema for basic and
> for
> qualified Dublin Core using RDF.
OK, then probably the best move is for WebDAV to store the properties in
whatever format DC uses (since RDF is expressed in XML already).
> So, while the Dublin Core assumes some capabilities that are more
> general
> than WebDAV,
Actually, WebDAV properties can be any XML you like; the <ol><li> in my
Draft is specific to the Draft.
> 2.4 Subelements
> The DC commuity has not completed its work on specifying qualifiers.
That's why the Draft says:
Since subelements are not yet standardized, this document cannot
yet give a definitive answer on how to integrate them into
WebDAV; a future document may be needed.
> We can talk about what is going on, in case the WebDAV group wants to
> try
> and future-proof WebDAV against what may be coming there.
I'm pretty sure WebDAV itself doesn't really need new capabilities here; we
just need to define a way of expressing DC elements in the framework we've
got.
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