- From: Simon Cox <simon.cox@ned.dem.csiro.au>
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 09:32:03 +0800
- To: Andrew Daviel <andrew@daviel.org>
- CC: www-talk@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Received on Sunday, 30 April 2000 21:32:47 UTC
To get over the "complex type" hump, Dublin Core Metadata Inititative has recently voted to approve use of several encoding schemes for the spatial aspects of the DC element "Coverage" - specifically these are TGN - Thesaurus of Gegraphic Names - http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser/ ISO3166 - country names - ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/ISO_3166 DCMI Box - a DCMI encoding - http://purl.net/net/csiro-metadata/dcbox/ DCMI Point - a DCMI encoding - http://purl.net/net/csiro-metadata/dcpoint/ These provide tools to solve some of the problem that you are dealing with. But interoperability is achieved, as with all things DC, only if the community actually uses these schemes consistently and indicates that they are using them. I'm currently co-editting the DCMI recommendation dealing with a complete "round 1" set of qualifiers for the DC Metadata Element Set. BTW - the new schemes DCMI Box and DCMI Point come with a couple of recommended notations - using XML and also one without angle-brackets, but there is certainly a case for an RDF notation too. Also, there was one comment that some pieces from MathML might have been re-used, but this seemed to introduce more complexity than it solved *for the application*. -- Best Simon Cox
Received on Sunday, 30 April 2000 21:32:47 UTC