Re: [OWL-S] Profile, textDescription

On Feb 26, 2004, at 2:04 AM, David Martin wrote:

> Well, I don't exactly object, but I'm not sure I see the motivation, 
> either.  I thought Dublin Core was mainly about classifying documents, 
> like for library purposes.  I'm not aware that it has anything to say 
> about services (?).
>
> OK, a service is a resource, and I guess Dublin Core is basic 
> provenance for any kind of resource.

Yep.

>   But if there are only one or two DC elements that apply 
> (description, name), I'm not sure it it's worth the added overhead of 
> using it.  The more there are, the more useful it seems.

dc:creator, dc:publisher, dc:relation (with the various subProperties, 
isVersionOf, replaces, etc.), I'm unsure about the temporal and 
geographic coverage ones, rights, date.

I agree that it might be a stretch in some cases, but it also seems 
worth investigating.

> I agree that we shouldn't have the cardinality restriction on text 
> Description.

yeah, that's a no brainer, I think.

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.

Received on Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:36:46 UTC