RE: Why not use DC?

Hi Felix,
Thanks for the prompt response.

> I think there is a misunderstanding which we had before. See
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-annotation/2009Jun/thread#msg75
> and my explanations at
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-annotation/2009Jun/0096.html

Thanks for citing those. Your reply in message 0096 was what I was talking about when I mentioned that:

> >[...]the group sees the ma: properties - not as replacements
> > for the DC and other properties, but as identifiers for mappings between
> > equivalent properties in various formats.

>  Note also that the API we are working on, see 
> http://dev.w3.org/2008/video/mediaann/mediaont-api-1.0/mediaont-api-1.0.html
> is even more specific than dublin core, e.g. in terms of return types.

Thanks for citing this, I had not seen it before. I see that you are defining structures for return types, but commonly what is coming back is a DOMString or an array of DOMStrings and the semantics are still the simple Dublin Core semantics. I still don't see the need for a ma: namespace that hides properties from other namespaces behind an alias.

Thanks for your consideration of this point.

Best regards,

Ron Daniel Jr.
Principal, Taxonomy Strategies
Tel: +1 925 368 8371
rdaniel@taxonomystrategies.com

Taxonomy Strategies
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Received on Friday, 9 October 2009 18:40:19 UTC