discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

I'm wondering: considering that there's already a very nice standard
for expressing Dublin Core metadata in RDF:

    http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/

...what was the motivation for making an almost-but-not-quite
identical metadata format for Creative Commons? Was it just to reify
the rights and license information? Couldn't that have been done
another way -- say, by defining a Rights vocabulary?

Has anyone worked on a standard or guidelines for putting Creative
Commons license information into standard Dublin Core RDF encoding?

~ESP

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