- From: Mike Linksvayer <ml@creativecommons.org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:59:33 -0700
- To: Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>
- CC: "Hammond, Tony" <t.hammond@nature.com>, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <rbg@talis.com>, semantic-web@w3.org
Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > OTOH, XMP is a really weird subset of RDF circa 2000. And as the RDF > worlds evolves, XMP is increasingly out of sync. Recent changes at the > DCMI are perfect evidence of this, where they are deprecating the > suggestion to use rdf:Bag and rdf:Alt, defining new base terms with > explicit domains and ranges that conflict with how XMP does things, etc. > > I don't have any solutions for you, though I do wish someone at the W3C > would put this issue on the radar screen. OpenDocument is getting > full-blown RDF support, and I've seen barely a ripple in the semantic > web community. What about a W3C-led effort to standardize RDF embedding > in files, with Adobe invited to the table? FWIW Creative Commons would be really really happy to see this happen. We've been recommending use of XMP for embedding for awhile, see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/XMP -- I don't think there is an even semi-viable alternative. But we'd love to see the rough edges go away. Mike
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