[Om3] <Description>

[Christoph LANGE]

On Monday 08 September 2008 09:55:49 Professor James Davenport wrote:
> This raises the question: do we want to structure the 'description' field
> more: e.g. <Description> and <FinePrint>, which might then be:
> <Description>
> The sine function of trigonometry
> </Description>
> <FinePrint>
> As described in Abramowitz and Stegun, section 4.3, and ISO/IEC 10967.
> </FinePrint>

The use case sounds reasonable.  But, in the spirit of the semantic web, may I
propose reusing existing vocabularies for that?  If we do introduce a generic
metadata mechanism (https://trac.mathweb.org/OM3/ticket/39), rdfs:seeAlso
sounds like a good candidate for this field (see
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#ch_seealso).  And we could still specify
FinePrint as syntactic sugar.  --  Well, it's not _exactly_ the same, but my
point is just to stay open minded to incorporating existing metadata
vocabulary.  I might find something even more appropriate.  Maybe in DC?  But
dublincore.org seems to be down right now.

Cheers,

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Lange, DERI Galway/Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange
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