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A community-driven ontology for the representation of environments
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dc11 vs dcterms as namespace for Dublin Core #905

Open dr-shorthair opened 4 years ago

dr-shorthair commented 4 years ago

The nano-crediting recommendations refer to Dublin Core properties in the http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ namespace. However, DCMI documentation recommends use of the 'more precise' elements in the http://purl.org/dc/terms/ namespace, particularly in the context of 'Semantic Web-aware applications'.

See https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dces/

Implementers may freely choose to use these fifteen properties either in their legacy dc: variant (e.g., http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator) or in the dcterms: variant (e.g., http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator) depending on application requirements. The RDF schemas of the DCMI namespaces describe the subproperty relation of dcterms:creator to dc:creator for use by Semantic Web-aware applications. Over time, however, implementers are encouraged to use the semantically more precise dcterms: properties, as they more fully follow emerging notions of best practice for machine-processable metadata.

cmungall commented 4 years ago

agreed, this is a problem all over OBOs, see https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io/issues/540

this should be a one-line change...