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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Simon Cox wrote:

> Bill Whyte wrote:
> > 
> > 2)In searching terms, you will be specifying a keyword <type of audience>
> 
> There is a possible solution here:  
> 
> use Subject (i.e. "keywords")
> specify an Element Qualifier = "Audience"
> &| a value selected from an enumerated list 
>       e.g. XYZReadingLevel=(juvenile|young adult|adult), 
>            where XYZReadingLevel might actually be a URI
> 
> In qDC-HTML [1] this would look like
> 
> <meta name="DC.Subject" scheme="XYZReadingLevel" content="young adult">
> or
> <meta name="DC.Subject.Audience" scheme="XYZReadingLevel" content="young adult">
> 
> Dumbing-down to 
> <meta name="DC.Subject" content="young adult">
> this becomes a bit less useful, but is still not horrible.  

Erm... it becomes incorrect!?  This now says that the 'topic of the
content of the resource' is 'young adult'.  Audience does not refine the
semantics of Subject, so it is not a valid element qualifier.

Andy
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