[topicmapmail] Subject Identifiers metadata

[Murray Altheim]

Peter F Brown wrote:
> Use ISO 11179...it's all there

I'm not sure what you might mean by this actually mean in practice.

DCMES (NISO Standard Z39.85-2001) basically implements ISO 11179,
so there doesn't seem to be any difference between what Kal has
suggested (i.e., using DC) and using ISO 11179. What's needed (and
I believe Kal would agree) is a best practices-approach to expressing
the relationship between the subject identifier (a URI) and the
metadata about the identifier itself, in a Topic Map. This is to my
understanding orthogonal to ISO 11179.

http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

> Peter 
> 
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: topicmapmail-admin@infoloom.com 
> | [mailto:topicmapmail-admin@infoloom.com] On Behalf Of Kal Ahmed
> | Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:49 PM
> | To: topicmapmail@infoloom.com
> | Subject: [topicmapmail] Subject Identifiers metadata
> | 
> | Hi all,
> | 
> | An interesting discussion came up (in the pub as all 
> | intersting discussions do). Lets imagine that I want to 
> | create a registry of subject identifiers and I want to store 
> | metadata about those identifiers and I want to do that in a 
> | topic map. How do I identify the subject that is the subject 
> | identifier ? 
> | 
> | As a concrete example, lets say that I want to state that the 
> | subject identifier "http://psi.techquila.com/techquila" was 
> | created by Kal on
> | 29/04/2004
> | 
> | I can think of several ways of doing this, but I wonder what 
> | folks would consider to be best practice ?
> | 
> | Remember, I want to do this using a topic map, embedding DC 
> | metadata in the representation retrieved from the subject 
> | identifier URI is not enough.
> | 
> | Cheers,
> | 
> | Kal



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