RE: [xtm-wg] ISO 11179 attributes for XTM?

["Mason, James David (MXM) " <mxm@ornl.gov>]

Sounds plausible to me. It also gets back to the issue of OCLC and
registration authorities. If we added DC stuff to 13250, the logical RA home
for it would be OCLC, since they do the rest of DC.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I'm not so much interested in figuring out how ISO 11179 might fit into
> topic maps, but in how topic maps might fit into 11179. If you look at
> the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set [DCMES] you find that each of the
> fifteen DC elements defines a set of 11179 attributes. Six of them are
> the same for all elements, the last four vary per element. Terry Allen
> designed the OASIS Registry and Repository around 11179, and I've been
> encouraging the ebXML RegRep project (its progeny) to do the same.
> 
> If XTM were to add a normative, optionally processed DTD module that 
> added a set of #FIXED attributes to the DTD as according to ISO 11179,
> it could fit into the framework of metadata specifications with some
> exactitude. This set of elements would be defined for both ISO 13250
> and XTM, and would in fact be the binding between them. I'm willing to 
> do the work, but it's just putting another project onto my already 
> deep pile.
>  
> Murray
> 
> [DCMES] Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference
> Description
>   http://dublincore.org/documents/1999/07/02/dces/
> ..........................................................................
> .
> Murray Altheim
> <mailto:altheim&#x40;eng.sun.com>
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