Elements of the metadata returned from other functions - such as
license_list or license_by_keyword - can be
extracted from the overarching metadata using this collection of functions,
which (respectively) pull out the license ID, license name,
what superseded the license, and what keywords the license has.
a vector of the appropriate metadata element for each entry
(or a list of vectors in the case of extract_keywords, since
there can be multiple keywords per license).