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Title:            Decision on proposal for revision of term "mediator"
Shepherd:         Stuart Sutton
Identifier:       http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/2002/2002-02.mediator.shtml
Date:             2002-07-13
Description:      The decision documented here refers to a proposal
                  considered at the Usage Board meeting of May 2002
                  in Bath.  This document is pointed to from
                  the official list of Usage Board Decisions [1].

Decision: Accept

Reason: The new wording for the 'mediator' comment proposed 
here eliminates specific references to education and training, making
the term dct:mediator more generic for cross-domain usage.  The
amended language generalizes the refinement without loss of
meaning to the education community.  If a tighter link to the
education domain were deemed necessary, such a link could be
done in an education application profile.

Approved text - beginning
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    VMS-ID:        mediator-002
    Name:          mediator
    URI:           http://purl.org/dc/terms/mediator
    isDefinedBy:   http://purl.org/dc/terms/
    Label:         Mediator
    Definition:    A class of entity that mediates access to the
                   resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful.
    Comment:       The audiences for a resource are of two basic classes: (1) an 
                   ultimate beneficiary of the resource, and (2) frequently, an 
                   entity that mediates access to the resource.  The mediator 
                   element refinement represents the second of these two classes.
    Term Type:     http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/mission/#element-refinement
    subPropertyOf: http://purl.org/dc/terms/audience
    seeAlso:       http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/#Decision-2002-02
    Date issued:   2001-05-21
    Date modified: 2002-06-30
    Status:        http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/#recommended
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Approved text - end

[1] http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/#Decision-2002-02