> > > I believe the fundamental issue is: to what class of objects does our
> > > vocabulary refer? Is the term "resource" broad enough to cover
> > > "people" ("agents")?
>
> Yes it is.
I tend to agree, but note that... our scope (the scope of the UB) is
constrained by the scope of DCMI. I suspect the intended scope of DCMI is
wide enough to include 'agents' - though I'm not sure that would be a
universally accepted view within, say, the DC-AC. It is also interesting
to question whether the scope includes 'discovery of agents', or just
'description of agents to support the discovery of other kinds of
resources'? I would disagree with a scope that was wide enough to include
the first of these.
It is also worth noting that the scope of the DCMES, which is presumably
narrower than the scope of DCMI, does not include agents (i.e. one can't
describe agents using DCMES). This is implied by the fact that the
DCMI-Type list does not include Agent (or Person), but I doubt if it is
made explicit in any DCMES documentation - again, I find this slightly
suprising. Perhaps I'm wrong.
Andy
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