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Mikael said: > Referring back to the dc:identifier discussion, isn't it so > that the Literal "http://purl.org/dc/terms/" > is a namespace, I guess to be utterly pedantic, it's a namespace _name_ , isn't it? ;-) > but the Resource <http://purl.org/dc/terms> is whatever > document DC intends to put there? ... but, yes, agreed, I think. I admit I do still feel _slightly_ uncomfortable that the URIref http://purl.org/dc/terms/ is being used for two different purposes: 1. as an XML Namespace name; 2. as the identifier of the "defining resource" which is the object of an rdfs:isDefinedBy arc But I think I'm just about managing to convince myself it doesn't matter because in RDF (as Roland illustrated so nicely last night and as Patrick argued here a few months back) the former is only a syntactic device.... There is another consideration, I guess, which is that http:/dublincore.org/documents/2001/10/26/dcmi-namespace/ talks about > DCMI namespace > A DCMI namespace is a collection of DCMI terms. Each DCMI namespace is identified by a URI. Now this, it seems to me, _does_ say something about the type of the resources which are identified by the URIs: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ http://purl.org/dc/terms/ http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/ Is a "DCMI namespace" an "XML namespace", or is there some further subtle distinction being made here? Pete