comments on metadata note

Hi Bill and Madi,

Thank you for all your work on the metadata note [http://w3c.github.io/dpub-metadata/]. As I mentioned on the call, I have some edits that I hope will be easy to execute. Some of these are just picky.

I recommend against including phrases that indicate time. For example, eliminate the phrase, "new annotations WG", because it immediately dates the document.

Can we make a decision about DPIG vs. DPUB? This document refers to DPIG. Our IRC channel and such use DPUB. I vote for DPUB.

Audience:
As discussed on today's call, this document is targeted at a W3C audience. We will assess at a later date whether there will documents targeting a publishing audience. That being said, I think this document assumes a bit too much familiarity with publishing. A way to alleviate that is to link to the defined terms in the appendix. I think it would also be helpful to eliminate or reword some of the statements that end up sounding like commentary.

See "Example 1".
CrossRef-which provides (among other services) cross-publisher linking from citations to cited publications using the DOI [link to definition of DOI] (the identifier that has become fundamental to the scholarly publishing ecosystem)-has for some time recommended that DOIs always be expressed in the form of a URI. However, this is inconsistently done because of the lack of understanding (perhaps change to familiarity with?) of the URI by publishers and other participants in the publishing ecosystem and the large number of existing published DOIs expressed in the previously recommended format, which was not a URI.

I think doing this will neutralize the document as well as make it briefer.

Section 1.1 "...in the three modes described at the beginning of this section."  - I am a little unsure about what the three modes of publishing are.

Appendix B & C
As part of my goal of eliminating tabular objects that do not need to be tables, please consider making this thing called a list into an actual list. Imagine reading this on a phone or with AT.

Please let me know if I can help in any way,

Thanks,
Tzviya

[1] http://w3c.github.io/dpub-metadata/

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