Re: context of dc:identifier

Tony,

Hammond, Tony wrote:

...

> The problem with XMP is that it does not allow for arbitrary RDF/XML but
> constrains the defined schemas (DC being one of the defined schemas) to
> contain the value types specified. See the dump below of a demo XMP using
> the sample SDK app DumpMainXMP (and as RDF/N£ via cwm). Note that the
> structured types (array - Alt, Bag, Seq) follow the Adobe spec.

We've chatted about this a bit off-list earlier. Indeed this is an 
unfortunate situation. We have XMP, which in principle is a great 
implementation of RDF: the notion that one embeds metadata in the file 
and it travels with it.

OTOH, XMP is a really weird subset of RDF circa 2000. And as the RDF 
worlds evolves, XMP is increasingly out of sync. Recent changes at the 
DCMI are perfect evidence of this, where they are deprecating the 
suggestion to use rdf:Bag and rdf:Alt, defining new base terms with 
explicit domains and ranges that conflict with how XMP does things, etc.

I don't have any solutions for you, though I do wish someone at the W3C 
would put this issue on the radar screen. OpenDocument is getting 
full-blown RDF support, and I've seen barely a ripple in the semantic 
web community. What about a W3C-led effort to standardize RDF embedding 
in files, with Adobe invited to the table?

Bruce

Received on Monday, 3 September 2007 16:21:36 UTC