Re: Dublin Core prefixes in OA

+1 to alignment

Thx, Tom, for the background. Useful for the national standards bodies to understand. 

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> On 15 Jan 2014, at 16:37, Thomas Baker <tom@tombaker.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:24:54AM -0500, Paolo Ciccarese wrote:
>> He pointed out that while we are absolutely free to pick our own prefix
>> definitions, we could consider of aligning them with the prefixes of the
>> RDFa core context: http://www.w3.org/2011/rdfa-context/rdfa-1.1
>> 
>> In particular, that would mean to map
>> dc = http://purl.org/dc/terms/
>> dc11 = http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
>> 
>> It seems, the DC folks recommended those prefixes to the RDFa WG because
>> they want to slowly deprecate the old 1.1 elements.
>> 
>> It is probably not crucial but, in general, I think it is probably a good
>> idea to align our context with existing ones in the same ecosystem.
> 
> +1 to align with RDFa core context
> 
> As I recall it, the mapping of dc: to /terms/ came about because this is 
> what the RDFa community preferred at the time, and DCMI had no objection.
> After all, they are "just prefixes"... ;-)
> 
> This has, alas, created some confusion for those who had mapped dc: to
> /elements/1.1/, though the existence of range-less and ranged properties in
> parallel has been a problem since ranges were introduced in January 2008.
> 
> DCMI "gently promotes" the ranged properties of /terms/ while avoiding the word
> "deprecate" because part of the community feels that the range-less properties
> may in some cases be preferable.
> 
> Tom
> 
> -- 
> Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
> 

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