Date format for Dubiln Core

Hi folks,

I have written a draft that would like to grow up into a specification of  
the profle of ISO-8601 which removes punctuation for dates, giving things  
like 20060103 or (ergh!) 79. The primary purpose is to document that  
format for use in Dublin Core, since there is existing data which uses it,  
and saying something is ISO-8601-conformant is not much stricter than  
saying it uses ASCII characters to record a date...

It's a bit tangential to the general work here, but might be of interest.  
Among other things I suggest using an RDF datatype, even though it is not  
clear how to define an automagcally processable one yet, where dates are  
used in RDF.

It's at http://people.opera.com/charlesm/2006/shortdate/ - dated 30  
December, and I plan to publish a new draft about 15 jan with at least  
spelling mistakes and the unfinished example fixed, a clarification of  
what is normative or not, and similar editorial changes. Other suggestions  
for editorial or substnative changes are welcome...

cheers

Chaals

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Received on Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:51:34 UTC