> Yeah. We need GUID's for people.
The work on ISNI - International Standard Name Identifiers (ISO 27729 -
in draft) is worth tracking if we're thinking about using IDs for
parties ...
- Alex.
>
> -Rob
>
>
>
>
> "Dennis E. Hamilton" <>
> 07/01/2008 10:58 AM
> Please respond to
> <>
>
>
> To
> <>
> cc
> "'Dave Pawson'" <>
> Subject
> RE: [office-comment] 1.2 para 3.1.7
>
>
>
>
>
>
> My biggest problem with these Dublin Core elements is not the
semantics
> but the absence of any syntax whatsoever (well, beyond "a string" more
> or
> less).
>
> That may not be a problem in the uses made in ODF, but it is a
> nightmare
> with regard to metadata consistency and attempting to automatically
> catalog from document profiles in repositories, especially if some
> applications are designed to fill this in automatically with something
> as
> strange as the logged-in-user ID (not mentioning any names).
>
> I am not sure this is an ODF problem, but it strikes me as very much a
> Dublin Core problem.
>
> - Dennis
>
> Dennis E. Hamilton
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> -----Original Message-----
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-
> comment/200807/msg00009.html
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 03:17
> To:
> Subject: [office-comment] 1.2 para 3.1.7
>
> The <dc:creator> element specifies the name of the person who last
> modified the document. The name of this element was chosen for
> compatibility with the Dublin Core, but this definition of "creator"
> used here differs from Dublin Core, which defines creator as "An
> entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource."
>
>
> If the semantics are different from dublin core please use a different
> element name.
> There is no point in diluting DC semantics.
>
> regards
>
> --
> Dave Pawson
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