Re: Status of the Dublin Core to Topic Maps mapping?

On 6 Oct 2010, at 9:59 AM, Lars Heuer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I wonder if someone is working on WD 29111 [1] and if I can safely use
> the proposed PSIs and mappings.
> 
> Further, I found some oddities like mapping dc:creator to an
> association, which does not work in 98% of the use cases I found
> since dc:creator is almost always a string containing just the name of
> the creator (which is also proposed by Dublin Core [2]). The same
> holds true for dc:publisher and dc:contributor.
> 
> Therefore it's difficult to process the DC -> TM mapping with RTM [3]
> (a draft is available at [4]).
> 
> I understand the advantages of treating the creator as topic and
> connect it to the resource via an association, but it does not work
> practically (without manual editing).


Hi Lars,

Just wondering why this is such a big deal in practice.  Can't you just create a topic representing the author automatically as part of the processing phase and then add reification information at a later stage (if and when it actually becomes required)?

I have to say that I'm lost on the manual editing part.  Even if you're hand-editing maps in one of the available formats, I would've thought it would be straightforward.

I hit this type of thing all the time in processing the information I manage (not with DC, but with others), so I'm curious as to the main issues you see.

Thanks in advance,

ast
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