Re: Why not use DC?

On 18 Jun 2009, at 17:31, Dan Brickley wrote:

> Another might be that DC is simply one of 25+ schemes investigated,  
> all
> of which have some common aspects. Why bless DC rather than the  
> others?
> A DC response here would be that Dublin Core is intended to be a
> lightweight common core, created for just such purposes, ie. mixing
> information across domains.


Lets see, the mission of the MAWG is to "...provide an ontology  
designed to facilitate cross-community data integration..." and it is  
unable to do that itself?

XMP, EUBCore, MediaRDF reused DC. (LOM sort-of did)

Unless you can say where those 11 properties are different to DC, then  
the group has failed its mission.

Cheers...  Renato Iannella
NICTA

Received on Friday, 19 June 2009 12:11:28 UTC