RE: DC/RDF and DC/XML (was RE: The Tragedy of RSS)

>> However, I question whether the use of DC-in-RDF [1] elements in a
>> document which is not an RDF document can really be said to be a use
>> of RDF per se, especially given that the element names are identical
>> to those used in a 'pure' XML encoding of DC [2].
>
>Out of interest what do people think of the fact that the same namespace
>names are used in both RDF and non-RDF based DC?

A good thing, I reckon. DC describes the concept of 'title' orthogonally to
the way it's represented in plain XML, RDF, gent's toilet graffiti or
whatever. The ns identifies the concept description set.