> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:28:23 +0000 (GMT) > From: Andy Powell <a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk> > > > (The only problem is that, since the DCMI steadfastly refuse to > > define an XML Schema for Dublin Core, a dozen different projects > > are busily at work defining their own, subtly incompatible, > > versions.) > > This isn't quite true. DCMI has defined and published an XML schema > for simple DC. See > > http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/ > > (I would hope that a similar schema for qualified DC will be released > shortly). > > However, it is worth noting that the simple DC schema is > specifically intended for importing into other, > applicationp-specific schemas. Therefore it does not define a > container element for the DC record - it is up to the application to > define that. ... which, to the eye of the layman, is very similar to not having defined a schema :-) But, OK, point taken. _/|_ _______________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ "NOTICE: Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot" -- Mark Twain. -- Listen to my wife's new CD of kids' music, _Child's Play_, at http://www.pipedreaming.org.uk/childsplay/Received on Wednesday, 26 March 2003 04:23:10 GMT
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