SWAD Europe issues

This was presented as a slideshow by Tom Baker at Dublin Core 2002 as part of SWAD-Europe Initial Workshop on 17 October 2002, as part of the discussion about best practices for using RDF with Dublin Core for information discovery.

This version was produced by Charles McCathieNevile from the original Powerpoint (TM) slides.

Issue

• Declaring translated labels/definitions
• Possibly also: related provenance information

How a term is declared

<a id="date-004" name="date-004"></a>
        URI:            http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date
        Namespace:      http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
        Name:           date
        Label:          Date
        Definition:     A date associated with an event in the life cycle of the
                        resource.
        Comment:        Typically, Date will be associated with the creation or
                        availability of the resource.  Recommended best practice
                        for encoding the date value is defined in a profile of
                        ISO 8601 [W3CDTF] and follows the YYYY-MM-DD format.
        References:     http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/references/#W3CDTF
        Type of term:   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/#element
        Status:         http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/#recommended
        Date issued:    1998-08-06
        Date modified:  2002-10-04
        Decision:       http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/#Decision-2002-03
        This version:   http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/dc/#date-004
        Replaces:       http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/dc/#date-003

A breakdown...

The URI for the term stays constant over time:

        URI:            http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date

The amespace and name are the prefix and suffix of the terms’ URI

        Namespace:      http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
        Name:           date

A human-readable label, definition, and comment – in English

        Label:          Date
        Definition:     A date associated with an event in the life cycle of the
                        resource.
        Comment:        Typically, Date will be associated with the creation or
                        availability of the resource.  Recommended best practice
                        for encoding the date value is defined in a profile of
                        ISO 8601 [W3CDTF] and follows the YYYY-MM-DD format.

Versioning information, status, and type of term

        References:     http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/references/#W3CDTF
        Type of term:   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/#element
        Status:         http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/#recommended
        Date issued:    1998-08-06
        Date modified:  2002-10-04
        Decision:       http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/#Decision-2002-03
        This version:   http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/dc/#date-004
        Replaces:       http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/dc/#date-003

Roland’s dc.rdf.xml: declaring elements

     <rdf:Property rdf:about="&dcns;date">
       <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="&dcns;"/>
       <dcterms:issued>1999-07-02</dcterms:issued>
     </rdf:Property>
       <rdf:Description rdf:about="&dcns;date" rdf:bagID="date-003">
       <rdfs:label xml:lang="en-US">Date</rdfs:label>
       <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en-US">A date associated...</rdfs:comment>
       <dc:description xml:lang="en-US">Typically, Date...</dc:description>
     </rdf:Description>
       <rdf:Description rdf:about="#date-003">
       <dcterms:issued>2002-06-15</dcterms:issued>
     </rdf:Description> 

Roland’s dc.translations.rdf.xml: declaring translations

     <rdf:Description rdf:about="&UBtempdces;Translations/">
        <dc:title xml:lang="en-US">Translations of the
         Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1.</dc:title>
        <dc:description>A list of DCMI registered translations
         of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1
         formatted in RDF/XML.</dc:description>
     </rdf:Description>
       <rdf:Bag rdf:about="">
     <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.iwi-iuk.org/material/RDF/1.1/dc/DEdces/"/>
     </rdf:Bag>
       <rdf:Description
         rdf:about="http://www.iwi-iuk.org/material/RDF/1.1/dc/DEdces/">
      <dc:title xml:lang="en-US">German Translation of the Dublin
         Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1."</dc:title>
     <dc:title xml:lang="de">&#xDC;bersetzung des Dublin Core MetaData
         Element Set, Version 1.1 ins Deutsche.</dc:title>
     </rdf:Description> 

Eric’s proposal

<rdf:Description rdf:about="URI">
   <rdfs:label xml:lang="lang">label here</rdfs:label>
   <rdfs:comment xml:lang="lang"> description here </rdfs:comment>
</rdf:Description>