discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Lucas Gonze wrote:
> Better: use rdf:about attribute on the Agent.

That sounds like a good call, vs.

> On Wednesday, Dec 31, 2003, at 13:48 America/New_York, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> >       <dc:creator>
> >         <Agent>
> >           <dc:title>John Smith</dc:title>
> >                 
> > <dc:identifier>http://example.com/john_smith</dc:identifier>
> >         </Agent>
> >       </dc:creator>

BTW, use of dc:identifier seems very loose, and I fear I've contributed 
to that a teeny tiny bit.  Where I know the identifier is a URI, in 
RDF/XML it seems to make sense to use

<dc:identifer rdf:resource="http://example.com/john_smith"; />

The DTD at http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/07/31/dcmes-xml/ allows 
it and lots of people seem to be doing that, particularly with FOAF.

Veering even further from the subject, I'm not terribly happy about 
cc:Agent.  It isn't widely used yet 
(<http://creativecommons.org/license> doesn't spit it out unless one 
provides the relevant, optional data), and FOAF now provides a widely 
used and better defined vocabulary for the same thing, namely 
<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/#term_Agent> and its subclasses.

Anyone have thoughts regarding adopting the FOAF vocabulary for agents?

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