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>>>Andy Powell said:
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> Therefore, our simple description should take the form
> 
>   <dc:creator>
>     <dct:Agent>
>       <rdf:value>Dave Beckett</rdf:value>
>     </dct:Agent>
>   </dc:creator>

The document is for unqualified DC so this is out of scope; you may
argue that it is too simple, but I would plead that we should chop up
the DC syntax format problems into small bits, and encoding the
15-element DC in XML is a discrete part.

I'm updating the draft after DC8 and one of the changes is to allow a
URI reference (RDF/URI people - don't start!) for every element.  I
added it to every one since I'm sure people could give examples of
why it was needed there, rather than just restricting it to the
elements that specifically said that they could take a URI.

So you could use this to point to an 'agent resource':

 <dc:creator rdf:resource="http://resource-describing-creator-agent/"/>

and still be simple-ish. In this case, the creator is an identifier
of the agent resource as Simon Cox prefered.

The form you mention above including the dct: namespace will be in
the next XML document, something like 'An XML Encoding for Qualified DC'
(again using a DTD)

Dave


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