Yes, Dan, there are collections that include use of 'mediator'. I would also add to Liddy's comment that when the 'audience' property [1] was added to the DCMI dcterms namespace in 2001 and 'mediator' [2] added as a subproperty of 'audience', a third property called 'beneficiary' was also entertained by DCMI Usage Board but not included in the namespace. 'Beneficiary' _was_ added to the DC-based GEM schema used by the Gateway to 21st Century Skills in the U.S. (see science browse results at [3] and scroll down the facets to 'mediator' and 'beneficiary' and expand). Thus the broad 'audience' property can be refined to reflect both the nature of an intermediary for the resource and the nature of the ultimate beneficiary (some kind of learner)--e.g., a resource beneficiary of hearing-impaired students and a mediator of a librarian or a parent. Stuart [1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-audience [2] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-mediator [3] http://www.thegateway.org/search/apachesolr_search?filters=tid:139 On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote: > > > On Thursday, 5 July 2012, Liddy Nevile wrote: > >> I wonder if it is useful to offer that when we made the 'audience' term >> for DCMI we found that we needed to know the audience but we also thought >> of a mediator i.e. if the target audience was 3 year olds but with the help >> of an adult who would print the page for the three year old to colour in >> with pencils, there was the child as the audience and the adult as the >> mediator. > > > Interesting. Are there any datasets or consuming apps yet that make this > distinction? > > Dan -- Stuart A. Sutton, CEO and Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Associate Professor Emeritus, The Information School University of Washington
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