- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:40:29 -0700
- To: Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com>
- Cc: Sebastian Germesin <sebastian.germesin@dfki.de>, 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>
I think the appropriate thing to do is to use the prefix that Thomas Baker, ie, DCMI, prefers... Ivan On Jun 10, 2011, at 03:34 , Niklas Lindström wrote: > 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 >> >> ### >> # >> # >> >> >> > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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