On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Rachel Heery wrote:
> in any way.. Therefore 'audience' is a 'top-term' just like any other
> top-term. It just happens to have a different namespace for historical
> reasons.
Errr... audience isn't in a different namespace. It is in the
http://purl.org/dc/terms/ namespace, which is where all new DCMI elements
and qualifiers will go.
> The alternative is there has to be a process for moving from
> domain-specific to cross-domain.... oh dear, that sounds difficult!
That's why we only defined the one new namespace
(http://purl.org/dc/terms/) for new elements and qualifiers - because we
didn't want elements and qualifiers to move between namespaces (and hence
become new terms) just because their status changed.
Andy
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