[Zope-CMF] Dublin Core

[Ricardo Newbery]

At 9:10 am -0400 6/6/01, Tres Seaver wrote:
>Ricardo Newbery wrote:
>>Specifically, I notice that the 'Coverage' element is not included
>
>Its semantics seemed hideously underspecified to me, so much so that I
>couldn't imagine wanting to use it in a general-purpose CMS.  Can you indicate
>how you intend to use it?

I need to maintain a constantly updated set of bylaws and other 
documents (current and historical) that govern a large number of 
county organizations across the state of California (and some 
documents with a statewide or regional 'coverage' or jurisdiction). 
Eventually, this application might be extended to cover the entire 
nation and maybe even the world.  The Coverage metadata element 
seemed appropriate for this purpose.


>>and  the 'Contributor' element is in plural form, 'Contributors'.
>
>Hmm, that may be an oversight.  We do offer alternate spellings of the date
>fields (the original, unqualified 'Date' was essentially useless for our
>purposes;  its semantics are too fuzzy).

I notice though that you do define a Date element that is built from 
the ModificationDate and CreationDate elements.  IMHO, extending the 
element set is just fine to accommodate local requirements as long as 
the relevant information is mapped to the default Dublin Core set.

Similarly, I suggest that 'Contributors' be mapped onto 'Contributor' 
unless you just want to correct the spelling -- possibly breaking 
someone's current application (or is CMF too new to worry about that)?

Ricardo Newbery
newbery@dvgroup.com