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Douglas, On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:41:32PM +1200, Douglas Campbell wrote: > > The nitty-gritty of Usage-Board-specific terms need not concern > > this list. However, it would be very helpful to hear arguments > > for or against declaring Usage-Board-specific terms (such as > > the above) as opposed to using existing terms from DC or RDF > > (as Harry advocates) -- even in cases where existing terms > > may be defined quite broadly or generically. > > I agree with Roland that the nitty-gritty IS relevant to the entire > DC community - anything "endorsed" by the DCMI will become a > model that others will copy. > > Ideally any dcu namespace terms would be defined "genericly" > enough that others could re-use them for their local applications. Yes, I completely agree that dcu should be re-usable for local applications as well. Wordsmithing the definitions of terms used for term declarations (what I was thinking of as "nitty-gritty") seems like a Usage Board issue. However, questions related to the design of the RDF schema -- e.g., whether it is better practice to declare those terms in a dcu: namespace or to use existing generic terms, "off-the-shelf", in a specifically Usage-Board way; or whether or not to use scheme classes -- certainly are, as you say, issues for the Architecture list. > I am currently looking at defining Application Profiles in machine-readable > format (rather than Word Processing documents!) [1], so if the UB > comes up with a good set of elements I'd definitely use them. > (I haven't had a chance to look through your strawman yet.) The proposal would at any rate need to be vetted by the community as a whole before being used to replace the current model. The bottleneck here is that it would take considerable work to track issues and manage discussion on an open list, and I can't really take on that additional task in the next two or three months. Potential volunteers should drop me a line...? Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker [log in to unmask] Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-160-9664-2129 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-144-2352