- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:53:27 -0500
- To: Paul Miller <apm9@york.ac.uk>
- CC: Dublin Core Metadata list <meta2@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>, www-html@w3.org
Paul Miller wrote: > 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'... Quite to the contrary! Recall tha the DC.xxx proposal involved binding DC to a URL. So the local name "ADS" would be clearly bound to a global pointer to one organization or the other. No registry is needed. Or to look at it another way: the registry is the web. --------------- excerpt from http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Search/9605-Indexing-Workshop/ReportOutcomes/S6Group2.html A Proposed Convention for Embedding Metadata in HTML. Reported by Stuart Weibel (weibel@oclc.org) June 2, 1996 3. LINKAGE TO THE REFERENCE DESCRIPTION OF A SCHEMA It is judged useful to provide a means for linking to the reference definition of a schema as well. The proposed convention for doing so is as follows: <LINK REL = SCHEMA.schema_identifier HREF="URL"> Thus, the reference description of one metadata scheme, the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, would be referenced in the LINK HREF as follows: <LINK REL = SCHEMA.dc HREF = "http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core"> --------------- See also "Goal: Self-describing information" in: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/DesignIssues/Metadata.html -- Dan Connolly, W3C Architecture Domain Lead <connolly@w3.org> +1 512 310-2971 http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ PGP:EDF8 A8E4 F3BB 0F3C FD1B 7BE0 716C FF21
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