Dear Tom,
let me try to express, what my understanding of the
current state of the art is.
Comments welcome! I choose "title" as example.
[Please excuse the non-debugged English]
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title
is THE dcmi choosen name (in the sense of RDF-MT)
for a property [which is an item in an ISO standard]
maintained by dcmi.
That property comes with assertions about it
authorized by dcmi (-usage) as such.
If formulated in a human language they are
formulated in US-en
(labels, comments for instance).
Third party may provide other assertions about this property
(labels, comments for instance in other human languages) under
that third party's authority.
dcmi as such can not be held responsible in any respect for the
correctness and appropriatness of third party assertions about
the property.
Nevertheless dcmi may choose to make third party's assertions
accessible via the dcmi registry.
dcmi WILL thereby clearly identify
third party's primary responsibility for the making of the
content of any of the assertions.
Included is the case that some third party chooses a different name
(in the sense of RDF-MT) for
a property it asserts as equivalent with the dcmi maintained property.
Best regards,
rs
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