12161 - [HELPWANTED] clean up vocabulary usage

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: RDF, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Waterson]

Currently, our "NC" vocabulary is a pile of ad-hoc hacks that have evolved over
time. We need to go on a crusade to formalize this and publish it. I volunteer
to start.

Comment 1

[Chris Waterson]

sigh. this'll have to wait.

Comment 2

[Paul MacQuiddy]

no qa contact needed

Comment 3

[Jim Salter]

Is there anything in particular you need cleaned up, or is this just a generic 
request?  I can certainly help with verifying consistency and syntax...

Comment 4

[Chris Waterson]

what we need is for somebody to

1. poke through the code base to catalogue the use of the 
http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf# namespace. Here's a starter list:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/search?string=home.netscape.com%2FNC-rdf%23

2. Optionally write an RDF/XML schema for that catalogue.

3. identify places where use of a well-known vocabulary (e.g., Dublin Core) 
would be more appropriate

4. file bugs on components to fix specific problems identified in (3)

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I have *no* idea, what you mean with tasks 1-3.

Comment 6

[Chase Tingley]

I did some poking around to generate a preliminary list of resources in the
NC-rdf# namespace, and the list is somewhat daunting -- it's close to 300 items
long (and I can't guarantee I didn't miss any, in fact it's likely).

There are a few issues with capitalization, producing redundant elements ("Name"
versus "name", "MIME-Type" v. "MIME-Types" v. "MIME-types").  Close to a third
of the elements appear to be supported by custom datasource code but are never
actually used.

A number of chunks of this list could probably be split off into self-contained
schemas used by a single component.  That might help impose some order on
things, but this is still a pretty enormous task.

Comment 7

[Axel Hecht]

waterson left the building

Comment 8

[Eugene W. Olson]

This seems like the kind of anal-retentive thing I'd be good at.  What type of capitalization are we looking for?  For example:

rdf:http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#name

or

rdf:http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#Name