> Referring back to the dc:identifier discussion, isn't it so that the
> Literal "http://purl.org/dc/terms/" is a namespace, but the Resource
> <http://purl.org/dc/terms> is whatever document DC intends to put there?
The literal "http://purl.org/dc/terms/" is a URI. The resource
<http://purl.org/dc/terms> is whatever it identifies. Whatever document the
DC intends to put there is a representation of the resource.
It's pretty irrefutable that <http://purl.org/dc/terms> is a namespace (it's
being a namespace is entailed by using it in
'xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms"'). The question is "is it anything
else as well as a namespace?".
I think that it is something else, hence my luke-warm reading of the
statement in <http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/> that referred to it as "a
namespace". However I think it's a stretch to say that that something else
is one and the same thing as the text one obtains by downloading it.
It is this something else that is the range of <rdfs:isDefinedBy>, not the
representation.
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