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T. Baker / 27 March 2000 Metadata Grammar: Towards convergence between Dublin Core and RDF Thomas Baker <[email protected]> GMD -- German National Research Center for Information Technology 30 March 2000

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T. Baker / 27 March 2000

Metadata Grammar:Towards convergence

between Dublin Core and RDF

Thomas Baker <[email protected]>

GMD -- German National Research Center

for Information Technology30 March 2000

T. Baker / 27 March 2000

Dublin Core (without Qualifiers)

Element

Name

ElementElement Element

Object?

Value

Type Title Date Creator

Document-like Objects (1996)Information Resources (2000)

"T. Mustermann" "Travel report" "Text" "2000-03-07"

HASA

HA

SA

HA

SA

HASA

Objects haveElements(properties).

Elements have Names and Values.

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Value Encoding Schemes

Element ElementElement Element

Object?

Type Title Date Creator

Resource

"2000-03-07"

HASA

HA

SA

HA

SA

HASA

VES

W3C-DTF

Says that the string "2000-03-07" isformatted according to a W3Cprofile based on ISO8601.

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Element Refinements

Element ElementElement Element

Object?

Type Title Date Creator

Resource

"2000-03-07"

HASA

HA

SA

HA

SA

HASA

VES

W3C-DTF

ER

Created

Specifies that the Dateassociated with the resourceis the Date Created.

ISA

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Value Components?

Element ElementElement Element

Object?

Type Title Date Creator

Resource

HASA

HA

SA

HA

SA

HASA

"T. Mustermann"

VC VC

HA

SAHASA

Type

"Person"

Affiliation

"GMD"

Were proposed as a type of Qualifier. Specify that T. Mustermann is a Person whoworks at GMD.

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No, let's move them to...

Element ElementElement Element

Object?

Type Title Date Creator

Resource

HASA

HA

SA

HA

SA

HASA

"T. Mustermann"

VC VC

HA

SAHASA

Type

"Person"

Affiliation

"GMD"

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...a People (or Agent) Core Element Set

Element

Name

ElementElement Element

Object?

Value

Type Affiliation Birthdate Name

People-like Objects?

"T. Mustermann" "GMD" "Person" "1947-03-30"

HASA

HA

SA

HA

SA

HASA

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DCMI sees Elements and Qualifiers

Element ElementElement Element

HASA

HA

SA

HA

SA

HASA

QualifierQualifier

ISA

??

Element RefinementsValue Encoding Schemesare both "Qualifiers"

DCMI has had nogrammatical term forthe high-level "object"

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RDF sees Resources, Relations, and Classes

Class ResourceResource Resource

Type Date

HASA

HA

SA

ISA HASA

Class

W3C-DTF

Resource

ISA

"Text"

Class

Date Created

Information Resource

Should DCMI redefine Typeas a "Class Refinement"?

Should DCMI definea grammatical entity,"Class"?