- From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:40:03 +0100
- To: SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Greetings. The SKOS Primer illustrates annotating ConceptScheme instances using DCTerms properties. Is it a recommendation to use that rather than the DC elements properties from <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>? This is possibly more of a DC question than a SKOS one, but this list is probably as good a place as any to ask the question, especially since I'm asking it in the context of trying to describe 'good practice' for developing vocabularies. DC elements have the advantage that they're probably more generally understood, and more things might be declared as rdfs:subClassOf DC elements. On the other hand, the DCTerms properties are more expressive, are declared as subclasses of the DC elements properties, and are newer (though I couldn't find an explicit statement that the older ones are deprecated, beyond the incidental description of the DC Elements properties as 'legacy' in the DC Terms documentation). My guess would be that the DC Terms properties are what I should recommend -- is there anything wrong with that? Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk Dept Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester
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