Aaron Swartz writes:
I see DC as a foundation upon which much can be built. We should not
discourage people to use DC, even when it goes beyond the simple uses that
we intend it for. Instead, we should encourage such development, as it will
strengthen the semantic meaning of documents.
This view is very much in keeping with direction that I would like to see DC
develop.
RDF, as an architecture for modular metadata, makes this a realizable goal,
and this goal need not conflict with the simpler instances of the standard
that some want to adhere to. All we need is a convention for a simple
parsing rule that makes it easy for applications to ignore what they don't
understand. This is the essential benefit of the proposal that Carl
advanced earlier today.
stu
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