The DC in HTML recommendation [1] does not discuss the meaning of
link metadata with rev attributes, all the examples are for rel
attributes. The implied meaning is that the current document is the
object of a statement whose subject is given by the link's href
attribute.
In a document whose URI is "http://example.org/current.html", this
link:
<link rev="DC.Source" href="http://example.org/other.html" />
Gives the triple:
<http://example.org/other.html>
<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/source>
<http://example.org/current.html> .
Okay so far? If this is the case, then the current document could
make statements about other resources that are not governed by the
owners of the respective resources, e.g.
<link rev="DC.Rights" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5000" />
This says the current document declares the rights to the notebooks
of Leonardo da Vinci, which is not true. The publisher of the current
document does not have the right to declare rights over another
resource. The publisher of the other (Leonardo) resource cannot
control the metadata statements made by the first (except legally).
Does this lead us into the territory of reified statements? Document
X _says_ it declares the rights of document Y? Is this the intention
of the DC in HTML recommendation, or should rev links be prohibited
for this reason?
Best regards,
Phil
[1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/
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