On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Eric Miller wrote:
> Excellent question. I would assert, in the above example both vocabularies
> (DC and ADMIN) are begin used to describe the resource located at
> http://metadata.net/admin/elements.html. I may be wrong, but I don't believe
> this is what the authors intended (Ren, Debbie?).
Eric does well with both his assertions ;-) It will be fixed in
the next iteration of the draft.
It is clear that RDF provides this functionality as it treats
metadata as an addressable resource. As you can see in the META
tag example in the draft spec, we "bundle" the ADMIN metadata with
DC.
One disadvantage is that the link is one way: From the Admin Metadata
to the DC Metadata. Hence, there is some assumption that both
pieces of metadata are transported together and/or you add a relationship
to indicate this (As Eric, et.al. points out in the Bearman, et.al. paper)
Cheers... Renato
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