Sorry, to clarify:
>
> If you adopt someone else's terms, you are stuck with their definitions, and if they decide to change them, you have to revisit your decision: a constant maintenance headache.
This is why we have versioning in the namespaces.
> The foaf vocab is in Testing status, version 0.98. Are they going to change it before it comes out? Who knows? Will they add something better like foaf:sortName that is more like a traditional library listing?
Yes, the version you'd be using is http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
> Just coming up with a list of all the possible terms out there and fighting over whether they are close enough to use for each term we have will be a major use of time.
I suggest that LoC not do this as it has been done before by the British Library and many others.
> On DC, people you might not be for it, but if we opened the BF vocab up, there might be a lot of clamor for it; it's so simple and it's all over the place!
You'd probably want to version this data too http://dublincore.org/2012/06/14/dcterms.rdf
>
> Nate
> PS I had a good laugh about the Unicode and ISO 639 "roll our own comment". I'm working right now on developing a computer that uses 2s and 3s instead of 1s and 0s.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stuart yeates [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:31 PM
> To: Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Forum
> Cc: Trail, Nate
> Subject: Re: [BIBFRAME] re-using existing properties (was http://bibframe.org/documentation/bibframe-authority/ and the "lightweight abstraction layer")
>
> On 23/05/13 05:25, Trail, Nate wrote:
>> I think when you start reusing existing properties, you're relying on
>> them being around for the long haul, and requiring systems that
>> consume them to be aware of all the multiple namespaces.
>
> The "syntactic sugar" option used by madsrdf:hasCloseExternalAuthority does not introduce a new namespace from the users' point of view. The syntactic sugar can even be kept in a separate RDF file from the definition of the bibframe properties, making it second class and invisible to everyone who doesn't want it.
>
>> In all cases, I can't
>> see us (the library community) agreeing that the way foaf or dc (or > whatever) uses a term really matches what we're talking about.
>
> Following that arguement we should also walk away from ISO 639, ISO 3166, RFC 3986, Unicode and so forth. None of them are perfect from a library point of view but all of the are better than rolling our own.
>
> [For the record I'm not suggestion using dc / Dublincore.]
>
> cheers
> stuart
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