- From: Andy Powell <a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 21:07:46 +0100 (BST)
- To: Nick Gibbins <nmg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- cc: www-rdf-interest Mailing List <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Nick Gibbins wrote: > Bill de hra <dehora@eircom.net> writes: > > > In the meantime, Dublin Core strikes me as sufficient RDF for RSS > > 2.0. > > Point of information: Dublin Core is a bibliographic metadata > vocabulary which is independent from, and which predates RDF. Point of clarification :-). Nothing in DC restricts it's scope to bibliographic resources. The more recent DC publications tend use the usual RDF definition of 'resource', i.e. "a resource is anything that has identity. Familiar examples include an electronic document, an image, a service (e.g., "today's weather report for Los Angeles"), and a collection of other resources. Not all resources are network "retrievable"; e.g., human beings, corporations, and bound books in a library can also be considered resources." (though personally I take issue with whether it is appropriate to describe a person using DC!). This is largely exemplified in the DCMIType list of resource types, which includes http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/11/dcmi-type-vocabulary/ Collection Dataset Event Image InteractiveResource Service Software Sound Text i.e. this list is indicative of the kinds of resources that one might expect to describe using DC. Andy -- Distributed Systems, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/a.powell +44 1225 383933 Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
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