> I seem to remember that somewhere there is a recomendation that dcterms:
> should be used rather than dcq: but I can't find this on the web site.
>
> Is there a reference to this anywhere?
>
> Is the following statment correct (if not I'll fix it):
>
> For a while the namespace prefix dcq was suggested by the DCMI for
> refined elements, however this should not be used, dcterms is the
> correct namespace prefix to use.
>
> http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/dcterms/#namespace_prefix
It's a namespace prefix. It is inherently non-normative and up to whoever or
whatever coded the thing.
Recommendations will just lead to people writing lazy parsers that think
"dcterms:" means something in itself.
I normally use dcq: or qdc: when hand-coding for obvious reasons.
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