discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Lorenzo De Tomasi wrote:
> Summary: Setting a proposed recommendation dc:term for concise descriptions
> could be useful when search engines and directories will add an option that
> permits to choose the license of the resources you are searching for.

I think if search engines want to display a concise description given in 
metadata they can display the first n characters found in 
dc:description.  It's hard enough to get people to provide good metadata 
without asking them to write two versions of a description.

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