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Subject: Re: [tm-pubsubj] Requirements oddity
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 14:35, Patrick Durusau wrote: [...] > "A Published Subject Indicator may provide human-readable metadata about > itself." > > But the "metadata" isn't really about "itself" is it? I think what we were trying to say is that the PSind can have metadata about itself *as well as* about the PSident (as you say). > [...] I would leave the requirement as stated, particularly since "resolve" is > left undefined, thereby allowing the full range of what are called > subject descriptors in ISO 13250 to be Published Subject Identifiers. Sounds OK. > I would however drop the second recommendation as confused. A Published > Subject Indicator is metadata (already constrained to be > human-interpretable) about the Published Subject Identifier. I think a diagram of what metadata goes where would be useful. Can a Subject itself have metadata, for example? > Actually I think we need to revisit the entire document and re-write > using Published Subject, Published Subject Identifier and Published > Subject Indicator, written out in full and limit the use of PSI as > shorthand for Published Subject. Not a happy circumstance but would > accord with our usage up to this point. I agree completely. Better still, choose at least one other word not beginning with "I" to replace either Indicator or Identifier. ///Peter
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