Thanks to all of you who commented on my naive remarks regarding DC and
'audience' etc. May I be bold and make some more comments:
1)What is special about 'audience' that you now begin to think about a new
element for it, as opposed to all the other categories?
2)In searching terms, you will be specifying a keyword <type of audience>
that might not meet my terminology (and might be very difficult to translate
in a multilingual case).
3)Also, it is very difficult to identify your audience.
4)What you do know about your document is its 'purpose': 'to teach 1st level
physics', a sales brochure', 'to meet the contract requirements of a
European research contract','to update document 1234 version 4', 'to tell
all librarians about a new DC development' etc - and you can use this
'purpose' element to describe things that don't fit terribly well into
document format, like Web pages, for instance.
That's probably enough from me on the subject.
Sincerely, in a context-dependent way,
Bill
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