On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:55:39PM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote: > > Tom, could you comment from a DC perspective. How are the DC Usage Board > > decisions represented? Any conventions we could share? Sorry, I forgot to summarize: A decision that results in any change to a term description triggers the creation of a new term description. Term Descriptions (identified by URIref) are associated with a Term (identified by URIref) and with other Term Descriptions, prior or successive. The decision itself has a date of issue, is identified by URIref, and is associated with a decision text and any other supporting documentation. This means you can start with any term Description and click back to the decision associated with its issuance and, from there, to the decision texts and proposals underlying the decisions. The URIrefs for Term Descriptions are not widely publicized as they are used very specifically for managing the historical evolution of the vocabulary or (in principle) for specifying the source of translations of labels and definitions into other languages (e.g., the Japanese translation of dc:title isTranslationOf http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/history/#title-003). The URIrefs for Term Descriptions were born, in effect, as anchors to points in an HTML document. Before making this approach official, we want to pause to reflect whether this is wise. Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker Thomas.Baker@izb.fraunhofer.de Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-160-9664-2129 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-144-2352 Personal email: thbaker79@alumni.amherst.eduReceived on Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:03:30 GMT
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