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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names
> On 22 Jun 2001, at 17:54, Peter Ring wrote: > > While Dublin Core might often be appropriate for *delivery* of common > metadata, it is not really intended for basic markup in your repository. Gee, I don't know. Is it possible to assure the right intention for everything? Some persons use a baseball bat as a form of protection; I prefer to take a baseball bat to the batting cages. Some people write documents with DocBook; others use it to exchange documents. :>) There are some DTDs which quite effectively use DC elements to provide metadata (http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/dtd/). My point was merely whether it is necessary to have a rich semantic (as currently in DocBook) or whether a simple semantic is sufficient. As well described in the following article you mentioned, there are ways to extend DC to make it more rich. > To learn more about the evolution and scope of the Dublin Core, see > http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january01/lagoze/01lagoze.html. While I do not suggest this approach, I believe most processing applications do not require a highly-defined level of semantic for publishing metadata or for doing intelligent searches with such content. In the case of marking up first names and surnames, I add a transformation step to DocBook documents to dumb the name- related information down into a DC-compliant format, which is more simple to search than a highly-refined semantic. There's only one "Jeff Iezzi" a billion "Jeff"s and few less "Iezzi"s within a certain context. Replace my name with "Michael Smith" and the results are similar once you express a relation to the "Michael Smith" of xml-doc. :>) To conclude, if you consider DocBook an interchange DTD, it might make sense to publish the metadata encoded in a DocBook document in a format that can be made available to metadata handling systems. Just trying to contribute ... [:>| Jeff Iezzi jeff.iezzi@semanticedge.com -- EOF --
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