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DC8: Architecture WG

DC8: Architecture WG. day 2 Architecture breakout group Sigfrid Lundberg (NetLab) siglun@munin.lub.lu.se Dan Brickley (ILRT/W3C) danbri@w3.org. Putting it all together. The lego click. We need architectural consistency across our specifications (HTML, XML, RDF) to support...

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DC8: Architecture WG

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  1. DC8: Architecture WG day 2 Architecture breakout group Sigfrid Lundberg (NetLab) siglun@munin.lub.lu.se Dan Brickley (ILRT/W3C) danbri@w3.org

  2. Putting it all together... • The lego click. We need architectural consistency across our specifications (HTML, XML, RDF) to support... • Proposed Agent core / agent qualifiers • (structured) dates and coverage • deployment of agreed qualifiers • representing new qualifiers and extensions

  3. Proposed Architecture WG: DCMI: finding stuff using metadata dc-arch: “The objectives of the working group are to discuss and develop a model, strategy and roadmap for the practical deployment of Dublin Core metadata using mainstream Web technologies (XML/RDF/HTML).” (for discussion...)

  4. Drawing together discussions... • Merge activities previously scattered between... • DC-implementors (deployment!) • dc-schema (“conceptual modelling” issues) • dc-datamodel (models and syntaxes...) • dc-ac (reversing the brain drain?)

  5. Main activities • Make technical discussions visible outside dc-ac (eg. To RSS community, W3C groups etc) • Roadmap: visible tasklist and plans for deployability • ongoing development and documentation activities (more on this later...) • Focus on implementability: what to say to developers who want to ‘use DC’

  6. Topics for discussion • How to make sure the work gets done? • Small practical steps, not a grand architecture • admit possibility of failure - some things may be too hard, or research topics • DCMI as community: explore IRC channels etc., as aid to progress tracking • Implementation focus: we all need this stuff to do our ‘day jobs’

  7. For discussion today... • What resources do we have? Who can spare time to... • report on implementation experience • developer FAQs, issue lists • work on specs, proof of concept implementations • What experience do we have? How consistent an ‘architecture’ can we expect to have? How can developers for use (X)HTML but be ‘RDF friendly...’ etc

  8. A lot of work to do • Can we live with the proposed charter? • Does the draft tasklist look ok? • Do we want to talk details now? • Possible time-consuming topics: • updating our RDF representation of DC-Q • principles of good qualification: is this an architecture question, Usage group, DC-AC?

  9. notes • Roland – update of rdf model spec • Discussion Haspart etc. – useful to represent nested structure. Hard in html, but rdf and xml allow this. Implementing the lego metaphor.

  10. Discussion… • In addition to nesting, also need `linking • Once we had URIs as possible values for all 15; qualifiers don`t reflect this. • This requirement came out of several groups at dc8, need for pointers, eg. To authority records.

  11. … • Old (current) rdf and dc doc was designed before rdf schema was designed; it does work that can be done with schemas. • Linking: what to point to; issue of exchanging authority records, granularity of those. Is there scope for DC advise on this… or engage in discussion with potential authority file providers (eg. Syntax…)

  12. … • Missing out on potential of rdf for representing hierarchical structure… not made good use of rdf to date • Agents – representing separately avoiding duplication • Do we have a requirement to represent dc-education structure… what does this amount to…

  13. Limits of a flat datamodel and cramming everything into the 15… Should extensions be qualifiers to 15 or additional A technical bumping into political issues. Namespace vs namespace… Pidgins vs complex languages; needing a name for those richer multi-namespace languages. We expect, hope, want additional constructs beyond the 15. Dc-education, agents…

  14. … • Can we avoid verbosity of multiple namespaces… why import 6 or more namespaces to get simple job done. • Granularity: versioning at element level, at namespace level, both, either etc confusion… • How can we mix for eg dublin core with Biztalk • Resolve the painful versioning discussion • (is this an engineering or policy question)

  15. Terminology mess: what do we mean by namespace… • Do we mean xml namespaces, ie modularity construct, unique names

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