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Subject: ODF 1.2 comment: metadata: Dublin Core
Part 1, S4.3.2 allows only 5 of the 15** Dublin Core elements. Indeed, it is not allowed under the current rules to use other Dublin Core elements. In general, foreign elements would be stripped out, however, from s21.1 foreign elements may not use a namespace defined in the tables in s1.5 which includes the Dublin Core namespace. I suggest it should be a goal that ODF 1.2 conforms to Dublin Core at a Level 2 (Formal semantic interoperability)* I suggest it should also be a goal that Dublin Core metadata can be readily round-tripped through ODF. I have, in the course of work, come across some government departments here in Australia who were interested in much stronger geocoding of data, for example. The dc:coverage element is perfect for this. SUGGESTION: All 15 Dublin Core elements should be defined in the ODF schema and allowed. No cherry-picking is helpful. If there are non-DC elements with the same meaning, the implementation should duplicate them, following the XHTML practice. If there are non-DC elements with the same meaning, the ODF TC may decide to prefer one, or allow an implementation to strip out or rename or favour the non-DC elements. But the *full set* of DC elements should be round-trippable in the absence of particular treatment by an implementation. If there are some DC elements which are regarded as bad, for some reason, they should be deprecated rather than being disallowed. Cheers Rick Jelliffe * http://dublincore.org/metadata-basics/ ** http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ P.S. I note that Dublin Core is an ISO standard: ISO 15836:2009 Information and documentation -- The Dublin Core metadata element set At time of writing, this is not one of the freebies: I don't know if the necessary application has been made. However, the core is available from DCMI as http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ which the DCMI says is the same text.
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