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So wait, why didn't the QDC people just use oai_dc too? Riley, Jenn wrote: >> I'm still confused about all this stuff too, but I've often see the >> oai_dc format (for OAI/PMH I think?) used as a 'standard' way to expose >> simple DC attributes. >> > > Yep, it's the same approach as was taken with the QDC format CONTENTdm uses that I mentioned - a third party defining its own wrapper since the DCMI didn't do it themselves. oai_dc showed up earlier than any of the QDC formats (I think) and its use in OAI-PMH pretty much cemented it. I've never seen simple DC in XML use a different wrapper than the one oai_dc provides. Not the case for QDC, though, unfortunately. > > >> One thing I was confused about was whether the oai_dc format _required_ >> the use of the "old style" DC uri's, or also allowed the use of the >> DCterms URIs? Anyone know? I kind of think it actually requires the >> old-style DC uri's, as it was written before "dcterms". >> > > That's my understanding as well. oai_dc predates the defining of the 15 legacy DC properties in the dcterms namespace, and it's my guess nobody saw a reason to update the oai_dc definition after this happened. > > Jenn > >