Stuart wrote
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> However, _nothing_ in the DCMI model says that an element/element qualifier
> that has a DCMI recommendation of "Domain Specific" cannot be used by ANY
> discourse or practice community that finds it useful! So, instead of
> bearing an immense burden of cross-domain proof, we let domain-specific DCMI
> recommendations "percolate" up from domain-specific status to where many
> domains find them useful _in practice_ (i.e., cross-domain).
>
> Sorry, Rachel, I know little about machine-readable stuff---I can barely
> read myself.
As Stuart pointed out: There is no barrier to use "audience" in non-edu situations.
In particular you can not and should not infer from the presence of "audience" the resource
under description is in the "educational domain".
rs
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> That's my sense of things.
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> Stuart
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