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Subject: RE: [office] Discussion Requested: ODF <dc:creator> conflicts
Wonderful! We need to refer to that. It is very important that we refer to that and not other DCMI documents, because DCMI has removed the XML provision from its latest DCMI Namespace policy. Here's the glitch: 1. This document you link (thank you, thank you, a thousand thanks) is a DCMI recommendation, Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML, that was issued on 2003-04-02, <http://dublincore.org/documents/2003/04/02/dc-xml-guidelines/>, and that is the latest version. 2. That document, in its Recommendation 2 on use of XML Namepaces, relies on this reference: [DCMINS] Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) <http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-namespace/> 3. That links to the 2007-07-02 Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) that confines DCMI Namespace as a convenient term for a collection of URIs and nothing more, that I cited and quoted in my note: <http://dublincore.org/documents/2007/07/02/dcmi-namespace/>. 4. However, there is a 2001-10-26 Namespace Policy for the Dubline Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) which is now marked as SUPERSEDED (the shouting is theirs). This one is all about XML namespace, although it fails to recognize the XML namespace rules. (It appears to be subject to a misunderstanding early in the life of the XML namespace recommendation that members of XML namespaces are identified by concatenating namespace URIs and the local names, when there is in fact no such provision or assumption in [XML-NAMES]. Nevertheless, the 2001-10-26 Namespace Policy, <http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/10/26/dcmi-namespace/> must be the one that is being relied upon when the Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML were issued. 5. CLEANING UP NORMATIVE USE OF DUBLIN CORE IN ODF XML: I think the way to navigate this is to actually reference the 2003-04-02 Guidelines document in the ODF specification as the basis for binding http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ for our use of the Dublin Core Element Set expressed in the value of XML elements. We should also stipulate that the usage in ODF is that provided for in Section 4, Simple Dublin Core, of the guidelines with Mixing of DCM metadata with other metadata schemes (section 6 there). Qualified Dublin Core (DCQ) should be excluded by a note, if appropriate. OK, good. Now we're simply back to discussion on whether the inconsistent specializations of <dc:creator> are enough of a problem to require remedy in the ODF specification. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 16:58 To: office@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [office] Discussion Requested: ODF <dc:creator> conflicts "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote on 04/01/2009 06:55:34 PM: > > > It's not clear to me that there is even such a thing as an authoritative XML > Namespace for representing elements of the Dublin Core Element Set 1.1. > Many xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" for binding a URI to a > prefix have nothing to do with XML Namespaces. Instead they are a hack of > the XML Namespace feature to provide an RDF CURI-aware processor a way to > turn an attribute of CURI type into a URI. > Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML "http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-xml-guidelines/ Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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