discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Evan Prodromou wrote:
> What about using the DCMI Audience element? Type=Text, Audience=Academic 
> would indicate that this is a text work primarily for academics.

That seems reasonable.

Other possibilities:

* dc:type (wouldn't conflict with present use, value would just be from 
a different vocabulary)

* dc:subject

* dcterms:educationLevel (probably not)

For any of the above, can anyone recommend a vocabulary to use that 
includes something like "Academic" (for audience) or "Scholarly 
Publication" for the others?

PRISM defines a list of
http://prismstandard.org/vocabularies/1.2/resourcetype.xml which 
includes "article", intended to be used with dc:type, but that could be 
any sort of article.  It also includes "journal" but that isn't quite right.

PRISM also defines 
http://prismstandard.org/vocabularies/1.2/category.xml (intellectual 
genre) which they recommend for prism:category but we could use with 
dc:subject or dc:type I suppose, but that list doesn't contain anything 
like "scholarly article".

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