- From: Paul Miller <apm9@york.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:40:49 +0100 (BST)
- To: Dublin Core Metadata list <meta2@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Andrew Daviel wrote: > A question: > > given <HEAD PROFILE="http://ww ...> > <META NAME="author" > > what if an author wishes to use more than one profile (both DC > and a private or specialist scheme, for instance), and > the same item appears in both profiles ? Indeed, how do you tell which > profile an item belongs to (short of reading both profiles and looking > for it) ? > > Possibilities: > > <PROFILE HREF="http://etc.org/myprofile.html"> > <META NAME="author" ... > </PROFILE> > <PROFILE HREF="http://http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core"> > <META NAME="creator" ... > </PROFILE> > > > <META PROFILE HREF="http://..." NAME="author" ... > Presumably, the DC. prefix model suggested by many for the Dublin Core could be called into service here, giving you ... <META NAME="DC.creator" ... and ... <META NAME="ADS.creator" where 'ADS' refers to a specific Archaeology Data Service profile that would, of course, be fully defined on the ADS website... There are issues here of registry, as with SCHEME names, in order to avoid 'ADS' being 'Archaeology Data Service' AND 'Alberta Dustbin Systems' or the Getty's Art & Architecture Thesaurus scheme being coded as both 'AAT' and 'A&AT'... Paul == paul miller ============================= apm9@york.ac.uk == collections manager, archaeology data service, king's manor york, YO1 2EP, UK tel: +44 (0)1904 43 3954 == http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/ ==== fax: +44 (0)1904 43 3939 ==
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