CatchPlus/OpenSKOS — Issue #10: OAI-PMH uses wrong DC namespace
Author: wmelder
Created: 2012-03-08 14:51:36+00:00
State: open

Hi there,

I just ran a test on the repository explorer (http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/) (always nice to do). In total16 tests failed, not all of them critical. Results show a lot of 'Schema Validation failed' errors. Usually I don't pay too much attention to these, but in this case I see that the element has the following DC declaration:

xmlns:dc="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-namespace/"

Isn't this wrong? When resolved, this URL shows an HTML page, that contains some text on the proper namespace to use for dc terms elements : http://purl.org/dc/terms/ and for unqualified DC: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ would be appropriate.

Having written the above text, I noticed that the records also contain a dc declaration, which is correct: xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/". So it seems that the mistake in the namespace declaration is made right on the record level. Still it is not very nice showing this wrong URI.

For example (this request): http://openskos.org/oai-pmh?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

regards,
Willem