discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Lucas Gonze <lgonze AT panix.com>]

On Wednesday, Jan 7, 2004, at 16:45 America/New_York, Mike Linksvayer 
wrote:
> Still could, no?

Sure.  I'm working out my own opinion by playing devil's advocate.  
Like a lot of people, I have much respect for FOAF-as-XML, so I can see 
the appeal.

As a rule you should avoid RDF in XML if it means you can't use an 
ordinary XML parser.  That doesn't happen until you reach a critical 
mass, but every bit of RDF you put on gets you closer.  It's already 
true that somebody can stuff true RDF into CC metadata, making it 
unusable in most apps.

The best reason to use foaf:Agent instead of cc:agent is that CC (like 
everybody) should reuse standards.  That's the most compelling reason 
to use foaf:Agent, probably compelling enough to go ahead with it.