Published Subjects Definitions Requirements and Examples
maybe you just need publishers to say "this is a published subject indicator"
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- "Subjects": "can be anything deserving to be identified, named, represented and generally talked about - otherwise said a subject of conversation"
- "topic": " the representation, inside an application, of an unique, well-defined, and non-ambiguous subject"
- "Published Subject Identifier" is a URI that resolves to a "human-interperable" "Published Subject Indicator": basically just provide an enumeration of "published subjects" which is an improvement because "publisher's statement of purpose, disambiguation of the subject, and stability.
- Recommendations:
Recommendation 1 :
A Published Subject Indicator should provide human-readable metadata.Recommendation 2 :
A Published Subject Indicator should provide machine-processable metadata.
Machine-processable metadata is recommended so that applications can use more information on the subject than solely URI identification.
Human-readable as well as machine-processable metadata can be included in the Subject Indicator itself (e.g. RDF metadata), or in a separate resource referenced from the Subject Indicator (e.g. XTM metadata). Deliverable 2 will provide complementary recommendations on the nature of those metadata.
Recommendation 3 :
Metadata defined in 1 and 2 should be consistent, but not necessary equivalent.
Consistency between human-readable and machine-processable metadata is the warrant of consistent "interpretation" by applications and humans. This can be achieved, for example, by human-readable metadata being an expression of machine-processable metadata. This issue will be addressed by Deliverable 2.
Recommendation 4 :
Published Subject Indicator should indicate that it is intended to be a PSI.
This statement of purpose has to be clearly endorsed by the publisher (see below).
Recommendation 5 :
Published Subject Indicator should identify its publisher.
Publisher is to be understood here in its Dublin Core definition: "An entity responsible for making the resource available."
Statement of purpose and Publisher identification are the warrants of trust, fundamental to efficient PSI mechanism.