fyi, there's quite a bit on dc:creator at -
http://rdfweb.org/topic/UsingDublinCoreCreator
On 9/14/05, Matthew Cockerill <matt_at_biomedcentral.com> wrote:
> I wondered about that.
>
> I did some digging around with the RDF concept of a sequence, but then realized that I hadn't really seen it in use, and wondered if that meant that order in RDF can be taken to be significant.
>
> And what I found in the specs seemed to that:
>
> "In RDF serializations order of the properties is not significant.
> If a property has multiple values the order of the values may be chosen to be significant."
>
> The latter case is what we are dealing with, so it seems that to explicitly express that it's a sequence, while nice, isn't strictly necessary if people agree (as they seem to) that the order of <dc:creator> properties should be taken as significant.
>
> Matt
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce D'Arcus [mailto:bdarcus_at_gmail.com]
> > Sent: 14 September 2005 16:54
> > To: general_at_simile.mit.edu
> > Subject: Re: structured bibliographic info for BioMed Central articles
> > now available as RDF
> >
> >
> > Matthew Cockerill wrote:
> >
> > > Comments/thoughts/suggestions for improvement would be welcome.
> >
> > Re: this example:
> >
> > <dc:creator>Li, Huawei</dc:creator>
> > <dc:creator>Corrales, Carleton E</dc:creator>
> > <dc:creator>Wang, Zhengmin</dc:creator>
> > <dc:creator>Zhao, Yanling</dc:creator>
> > <dc:creator>Wang, Yucheng</dc:creator>
> > <dc:creator>Liu, Hong</dc:creator>
> > <dc:creator>Heller, Stefan</dc:creator>
> >
> > Scholarly contributions are typically ordered (e.g. think of "first
> > author", etc.), so perhaps those ought to be grouped as a sequence?
> >
> > Bruce
> >
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