diff --git a/swh/indexer/metadata_dictionary/codemeta.py b/swh/indexer/metadata_dictionary/codemeta.py
--- a/swh/indexer/metadata_dictionary/codemeta.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/metadata_dictionary/codemeta.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import collections
 import json
 import re
-from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 
 import xmltodict
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
     def supported_terms(cls) -> List[str]:
         return [term for term in CODEMETA_TERMS if not term.startswith("@")]
 
-    def xml_to_jsonld(self, e: ET.Element) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        doc: Dict[str, List[Dict[str, Any]]] = collections.defaultdict(list)
+    def xml_to_jsonld(self, e: ET.Element) -> Union[str, Dict[str, Any]]:
+        doc: Dict[str, List[Union[str, Dict[str, Any]]]] = collections.defaultdict(list)
         for child in e:
             m = _TAG_RE.match(child.tag)
             assert m, f"Tag with no namespace: {child}"
@@ -84,12 +84,6 @@
                 # expansion will convert it to a full URI based on
                 # "@context": CODEMETA_CONTEXT_URL
                 jsonld_child = self.xml_to_jsonld(child)
-                if localname == "type" and isinstance(jsonld_child, dict):
-                    # With a codemeta context, this is later translated to a JSON-LD
-                    # @type, which must be either an array of strings or a string.
-                    if set(jsonld_child) != {"@value"}:
-                        raise ValueError(f'Unexpected value for "type": {jsonld_child}')
-                    jsonld_child = jsonld_child["@value"]
                 doc[localname].append(jsonld_child)
             else:
                 # Otherwise, we already know the URI
@@ -102,7 +96,7 @@
         text = e.text.strip() if e.text else None
         if text:
             # TODO: check doc is empty, and raise mixed-content error otherwise?
-            doc_["@value"] = text
+            return text
 
         return doc_
 
@@ -113,6 +107,8 @@
         # Transform to JSON-LD document
         doc = self.xml_to_jsonld(root)
 
+        assert isinstance(doc, dict), f"Root object is not a dict: {doc}"
+
         # Add @context to JSON-LD expansion replaces the "codemeta:" prefix
         # hash (which uses the context URL as namespace URI for historical
         # reasons) into properties in `http://schema.org/` and
diff --git a/swh/indexer/tests/metadata_dictionary/test_codemeta.py b/swh/indexer/tests/metadata_dictionary/test_codemeta.py
--- a/swh/indexer/tests/metadata_dictionary/test_codemeta.py
+++ b/swh/indexer/tests/metadata_dictionary/test_codemeta.py
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@
       <codemeta:author>
         <codemeta:name>Author 2</codemeta:name>
       </codemeta:author>
+      <codemeta:dateCreated>2022-10-26</codemeta:dateCreated>
       <author>
         <name>Author 3</name>
         <email>bar@example.org</email>
@@ -229,6 +230,7 @@
             {"name": "Author 2"},
             {"name": "Author 3", "email": "bar@example.org"},
         ],
+        "dateCreated": "2022-10-26",
     }
 
 
@@ -388,6 +390,6 @@
         ],
         "license": {"name": "GNU General Public License v3.0 or later"},
         "name": "The assignment problem",
-        "schema:url": "http://example.org/",
+        "url": "http://example.org/",
         "name": "The assignment problem",
     }