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Subject: RE: [office-comment] 1.2 para 3.1.7


> Yeah.  We need GUID's for people.

The work on ISNI - International Standard Name Identifiers (ISO 27729 -
in draft) is worth tracking if we're thinking about using IDs for
parties ...

- Alex.

> 
> -Rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>
> 07/01/2008 10:58 AM
> Please respond to
> <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>
> 
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> To
> <office-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>
> cc
> "'Dave Pawson'" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
> Subject
> RE: [office-comment] 1.2 para 3.1.7
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> My biggest problem with these Dublin Core elements is not the
semantics
> but the absence of any syntax whatsoever (well, beyond "a string" more
> or
> less).
> 
> That may not be a problem in the uses made in ODF, but it is a
> nightmare
> with regard to metadata consistency and attempting to automatically
> catalog from document profiles in repositories, especially if some
> applications are designed to fill this in automatically with something
> as
> strange as the logged-in-user ID (not mentioning any names).
> 
> I am not sure this is an ODF problem, but it strikes me as very much a
> Dublin Core problem.
> 
>  - Dennis
> 
> Dennis E. Hamilton
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-
> comment/200807/msg00009.html
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.pawson@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 03:17
> To: office-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [office-comment] 1.2 para 3.1.7
> 
> The <dc:creator> element specifies the name of the person who last
> modified the document. The name of this element was chosen for
> compatibility with the Dublin Core, but this definition of "creator"
> used here differs from Dublin Core, which defines creator as "An
> entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource."
> 
> 
> If the semantics are different from dublin core please use a different
> element name.
> There is no point in diluting DC semantics.
> 
> regards
> 
> --
> Dave Pawson
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> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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