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From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:40:03 +0100
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To: SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>

Greetings.

The SKOS Primer illustrates annotating ConceptScheme instances using  
DCTerms properties.  Is it a recommendation to use that rather than  
the DC elements properties from <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>?

This is possibly more of a DC question than a SKOS one, but this list  
is probably as good a place as any to ask the question, especially  
since I'm asking it in the context of trying to describe 'good  
practice' for developing vocabularies.

DC elements have the advantage that they're probably more generally  
understood, and more things might be declared as rdfs:subClassOf DC  
elements.

On the other hand, the DCTerms properties are more expressive, are  
declared as subclasses of the DC elements properties, and are newer  
(though I couldn't find an explicit statement that the older ones are  
deprecated, beyond the incidental description of the DC Elements  
properties as 'legacy' in the DC Terms documentation).

My guess would be that the DC Terms properties are what I should  
recommend -- is there anything wrong with that?

Best wishes,

Norman


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Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester
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