Changes to the abstract model
See AMDraftUpdate
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Improved consistency of glossary definitions, e.g. for 'term'.
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Added Vocabulary Model including descriptions of types of terms and relationships between terms (based on RDF Schema).
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Removed Appendixes containing historical information (Appendix A on structured values) and encoding guidelines (Appendixes B, C, and D).
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Improved modelling of sub-property and sub-class in Vocabulary Model as relationships between properties and classes (i.e. as per RDF schema) and added definitions in glossary.
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Used "separate 'description' about the 'value'" (or similar) instead of 'separate description'.
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Used 'described resource' throughout (to remove confusion between 'value' and 'resource').
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Added domain and range to the Vocabulary model.
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Updated definition of VES.
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Moved definition of description set to first bullet point of description model to emphasise the importance of this structure.
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Updated statement of purpose in Introduction.
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Permit value string to be associated with either language tag or syntax encoding scheme, or neither, but not both.
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Added new definition for syntax encoding scheme.
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Updated definition of VES as agreed at UB meeting in Mexico.
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Removed section on Dumb-down.
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Updated the terminology section to consistently use phrases rather than sentences.
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Removed marked-up text and structured value string from the model.
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Updated definition of rich representation, adding the notion of 'media type'
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Improved wording of first line of description model.
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Edited section 6 about encoding guidelines.
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Took out specific reference to using dc:type to indicate class of the value. Added note about inferring this from domain and range.
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Improved description model diagram layout to improve readability.
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Added tabular mapping of concepts to RDF/RDFS (section 5) and to legacy DCAM terminology (Appendix).
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Removed use of 'alpha-numeric' from definition of value string.
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Added "A vocabulary is a set of one or more terms. Each term is a member of one or more vocabularies" to the vocabulary model description.
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Removed use of QNames throughout - replaced with full URIs.