- From: Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:34:48 +0200
- To: Sebastian Germesin <sebastian.germesin@dfki.de>
- Cc: Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com>, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@kellogg-assoc.com>, "public-rdfa-wg@w3.org" <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>, Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
Hello! I've seen and always been using 'dct' for DC Terms, though I'm not sure how common it is in general. I would certainly prefer a short name. Ideally 'dc' (since "dc11" is legacy), or 'dct' otherwise. Best regards, Niklas On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Sebastian Germesin <sebastian.germesin@dfki.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I just did a quick check on Google and found [1]. > In their answer, they search on Swoogle [2] for the most used prefixes > and according to their numbers, 'dcterms' is used around 100 times more than > 'dc'. > Though I - personally - prefer shorter prefixes, I would adopt the "most > used" prefix. > > Unfortunately, Swoogle is down, so I had no chance to verify the numbers > given in that post. > > > Best, > > Sebastian > > [1] http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/640/dct-or-dcterms > [2] > http://swoogle.umbc.edu/index.php?option=com_frontpage&service=digest&queryType=digest_ns&searchString=http://purl.org/dc/terms/ > > > > Am 09.06.2011 um 23:42 schrieb Stéphane Corlosquet: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Martin Hepp >> <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote: >> Hi all: >> What about dct: for dcterms? >> >> I think that using dc: for dcterms may cause more confusion than good. >> >> It will confuse those who know about the two namespaces. Newcomers will >> not know anything about these namespaces. 'dc' is such a common prefix, it >> would be a pity to not include it in the default profile, and have to >> declare it in the list of prefixes. afaik, all terms from the old namespace >> map well to the new one, but Thomas should confirm this. >> >> Steph. >> >> >> Just my 2 cents. >> Martin Hepp >> >> >> On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Gregg Kellogg wrote: >> >> > On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Stéphane Corlosquet wrote: >> > >> >> If these prefixes are going to become widely used in the future, would >> >> it be possible to use the 'dc' prefix instead of 'dcterms' for >> >> http://purl.org/dc/terms/? 'dc' is shorter and will look more familiar to >> >> newcomers. This was discussed and advised in the DC-ARCHITECTURE during the >> >> development of RDFa in Drupal 7, see the rationale by Dan Brickley [2] and >> >> the responses from Thomas Baker and Mikael Nilsson [3]. >> > >> > +1 >> > >> >> regards, >> >> Steph. >> >> >> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/profile/rdfa-1.1#crawl >> >> [2] >> >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=dc-architecture;6b83a7bf.0909 >> >> [3] >> >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0909&L=dc-architecture&D=0&P=26639 >> > >> > Gregg >> >> > > -- > M.Sc. Sebastian Germesin > Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI) > > Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 > 66123 Saarbruecken > Germany > > Tel.: +49.681.85775.5079 > Fax.: +49.681.85775.5021 > > email: sebastian.germesin@dfki.de > GPG: http://www.dfki.de/~germesin/gpg/germesin_dfki.gpgkey > web: http://www.dfki.de/~germesin > skype: neogermi1337 > twitter: neogermi > github: http://github.com/neogermi > > ### > # > # > > >
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