Thanks for your comments, guys.  I was beginning to think the lack of response 
indicated that I'd asked something either heretical or painfully obvious.  :-)

> 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.

This is at least part of my use case — we do a lot of work with OAI on both 
ends, and oai_dc is pretty limited due to the original 15 elements.  My 
thinking at this point is that there's no reason we couldn't define something 
like "oai_dcterms" and use the full QDC set based on the updated profile.  
Right?

FWIW, I'm not limited to any legacy ties; in fact, my project is aimed at 
pushing the newer, "DC-sanctioned" ideas forward, so I suspect in my case using 
an XML serialization that validates against http://purl.org/dc/terms/ is 
probably sufficient (whether that's RDF or not doesn't matter at this point).

So, back to the other part of the question:  has anybody seen a MODS <—> 
DCTERMS crosswalk in the wild?  It looks like there's a lot of similarity 
between the two, but before I go too deep down that rabbit hole, I'd like to 
make sure someone else hasn't already experienced that, erm, joy.

MJ

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