Re: Dublin Core prefixes in OA

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:24:54AM -0500, Paolo Ciccarese wrote:
> He pointed out that while we are absolutely free to pick our own prefix
> definitions, we could consider of aligning them with the prefixes of the
> RDFa core context: http://www.w3.org/2011/rdfa-context/rdfa-1.1
> 
> In particular, that would mean to map
> dc = http://purl.org/dc/terms/
> dc11 = http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
> 
> It seems, the DC folks recommended those prefixes to the RDFa WG because
> they want to slowly deprecate the old 1.1 elements.
> 
> It is probably not crucial but, in general, I think it is probably a good
> idea to align our context with existing ones in the same ecosystem.

+1 to align with RDFa core context

As I recall it, the mapping of dc: to /terms/ came about because this is 
what the RDFa community preferred at the time, and DCMI had no objection.
After all, they are "just prefixes"... ;-)

This has, alas, created some confusion for those who had mapped dc: to
/elements/1.1/, though the existence of range-less and ranged properties in
parallel has been a problem since ranges were introduced in January 2008.

DCMI "gently promotes" the ranged properties of /terms/ while avoiding the word
"deprecate" because part of the community feels that the range-less properties
may in some cases be preferable.

Tom

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Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>

Received on Wednesday, 15 January 2014 16:38:24 UTC