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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Anna,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>One comment following from the GUID
meeting is that I believe we need to get serious about being able to represent
our data models in RDF. This means that the goal should indeed be for a “flat”
(Darwin Core like) standard. If there are elements which hold nested
complexity that we wish to represent, we should recognise that these are
probably separate data objects which should be modeled as separable components
(with their own “flat” standards). The top level object can
then have a property whose value is the identifier for one of the lower level
components. Even if we choose to compose rich documents with entire trees
of object relationships, the underlying model should make these separations
clear.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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TDWG-Lit-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:TDWG-Lit-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Anna Weitzman<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 09 February 2006 16:22<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> TDWG-Lit@lists.tdwg.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Tdwg-lit] Level 2
starting point</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Dear All,<br>
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Attached is the starting point of the level 2 standard. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif"'>This
is very much an intermediate between the other two standards, but as was
discussed in the TDWG meetings, it is very much needed for a number of
reasons. It will certainly be vital if we are to accommodate (and
drive) the metadata choices that are made for the big literature digitization
projects that are in the pipeline.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif"'>Once
again, please review:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif"'>Requirements
(do you have others? are these the right ones?)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
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& Chris<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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