RE: Namespace evolution.

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Sigfrid Lundberg, Lub NetLab wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jason Diamond wrote:
> > I just found this document, "Using Dublin Core in XML" [1], also a Working
> > Draft but much more recent, that uses http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ as
> > the namespace. Thanks in advance to everyone who was going to point that
> > out. I still don't like the fact that it's version dependant.
> 
> Neither do I. Again, if you want to influence the development of these
> documents, turn to the DCMI itself. 

Shigeo Sugimoto, his colleagues, and I just finished a short paper
discussing some versioning requirements and alternative ways to version
the Dublin Core. We also come down in favor of version-independent
namespace and element names.  At the same time, we suggest some
mechanisms for helping developers or archivists specify or reconstruct
the exact state of namespaces and definitions as of a particular date.

We "very soon now" wanted to turn this paper into a strawman for
discussion on the mailing list of the DCMI Registry Working Group
(http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-registry/join.html) and welcome
anyone from this list to join.  I would be happy to share this paper
with anyone in the meantime.

Tom

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