I can't comment on the right to use the DC prefix, but I posted this on
dc-architecture yesterday:
Interesting discussion about using strings of the form "ns:localname" in
XML documents. This is relevant to earlier discussions on this list.
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/qnameids.html
I think this doc is highly relevant to your efforts, so have a look.
/Mikael
Misha Wolf wrote:
> [Apologies for cross-posting]
>
> Hi folks,
>
> The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) is
> interested in using DC for our new generation of standards. These
> standards will employ the News Metadata Framework, described in the
> News Metadata Framework Requirements specification, available at:
> http://www.iptc.org/dev/
>
> Our plan is to use a different syntax from any of those described on
> the DC Web site. This syntax will employ QNames in attribute values
> and is related to the work being done in the W3C towards XHTML 2.0.
>
> How do we get an authoritative statement of whether it is OK to use
> the acronym "DC" and the DC namespace if we are employing the DC
> semantics but not one of the DC-approved syntaxes?
>
> Many thanks,
> Misha Wolf
> Standards Manager, Reuters
> Chair, IPTC News Metadata Framework WG
>
>
>
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