Dublin Core Elements

Dublin Core Elements - see http://www.dublincore.org/ for further details about the Dublin Core elements.

• DC.Creator - an entity primarily responsible for making the resource.

  Examples of a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service.

  Typically, the name of a Creator should be used to indicate the entity.

  • DC.Creator Sub Elements
    • PersonalName
    • CorporateName
    • Jurisdiction
    • Contact
    • Email
    • Sector
  • DC.Creator Content
    • default:user - user at publish time
  • DC.Creator scheme
    • X.500
• DC.Date - a point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource.

  Recommended best practice is defined in a profile of ISO 8601 (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime) that includes among others dates of the forms YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD.

  For example, in this scheme, the date 1994-11-05 corresponds to November 5, 1994.

  • DC.Date Sub Elements
    • Created
    • Modified
    • Valid
    • ValidFrom
    • ValidTo
    • Issued
  • DC.Date Content
    • default:date - date at publish time
  • DC.Date scheme
    • ISO8601 - ISO-8601 date encoding
    • DCMIPeriod
• DC.Description - a textual description of the content of the resource, including abstracts in the case of document - like objects or content descriptions in the case of visual resources
  • DC.Description Content
    • default:title - title at publish time
  • DC.Description scheme
    • URI
• DC.Title - the name given to the resource, usually by the creator or publisher
  • DC.Title Sub Elements
    • Main
    • Alternative
  • DC.Title Content
    • default:title - title at publish time
• DC.Type - the nature or genre of the resource.

  Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the DCMI Type Vocabulary [DCMITYPE].

  To describe the file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource, use the Format element.

  • DC.Type Sub Elements
    • Category
    • AggregationLevel
    • DocumentType
    • ServiceType
  • DC.Type scheme
    • AGLS-Document
    • AGLS-Service
• DC.Subject - the topic of the resource. Typically, subject will be expressed as keywords or phrases that describe the subject or content of the resource.

  The use of controlled vocabularies and formal classification schemes is encouraged.

• DC.Identifier - a string or number used to uniquely identify the resource.

  Examples for networked resources include URLs and URNs when implemented.

  Other globally-unique identifiers, such as International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) or other formal names are also candidates for this element.

  • DC.Identifier scheme
    • URI
    • ISBN
    • ISSN
    • X.500
• DC.Publisher - the entity responsible for making the resource available in its present form, such as a publishing house, a university department or a corporate entity
  • DC.Publisher Sub Elements
    • PersonalName
    • CorporateName
    • Jurisdiction
    • Contact
    • Email
    • Sector

  • DC.Publisher Content

    • default:user - user at publish time
  • DC.Publisher Schema
    • X.500
• DC.Relation - a related resource.

  Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.

  • DC.Relation Sub Elements
    • IsPartOf
    • HasPart
    • IsVersionOf
    • HasVersion
    • IsFormatOf
    • HasFormat
    • Reference
    • IsReferencedBy
    • IsBasedOn
    • IsBasisFor
    • IsRequiredBy
    • Requires
    • IsReplacedBy
    • Replaces.
• DC.Rights - a rights management statement, an identifier that links to a rights management statement or an identifier that links to a service providing information about rights management for the resource

  • DC.Rights Content

    • default:title - title at publish time
  • DC.Rights scheme
    • Uri
• DC.Source - information about a second resource from which the present resource is derived.

  While it is generally recommended that elements contain information about the present resource only, this element may contain metadata for the second resource when it is considered important for discovery of the present resource.

  • DC.Source Sub Elements
    • Creator
    • Publisher
    • Contributor
    • Rights
    • Title
    • Subject
    • Description
    • Language
    • Relation
    • Coverage
    • Function
    • Date
    • Type
    • Format
    • Identifier
    • Availability.
  • DC.Source scheme
    • URI
    • ISBN
    • ISSN.
• DC.Coverage - the spatial or temporal characteristics of the intellectual content of the resource.

  Spatial coverage refers to a physical region - for example, celestial sector - or using place names or coordinates, for example, longitude and latitude.

  Temporal coverage refers to what the resource is about rather than when it was created or made available - the latter belonging in the date element.

  Temporal coverage is typically specified using named time periods - for example, neolithic - or the same date/time format as recommended for the date element.

  • DC.Coverage Sub Elements
    • PlaceName
    • PeriodName
    • Spatial
    • Temporal
    • Postcode.
  • DC.Coverage scheme
    • ISO8601 - ISO-8601 date encoding
    • TGN - Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names
    • LCSH - Library of Congress Subject Headings
    • Jurisdiction

• DC.Language- the language of the intellectual content of the resource.

  Recommended best practice is defined in RFC 1766 [4].

  • DC.Language scheme
    • RFC1766
• DC.Contributor - a person or organisation not specified in a Creator element who has made significant intellectual contributions to the resource but whose contribution is secondary to any person or organisation specified in a Creator element - for example, editor, transcriber and illustrator
  • DC.Contributor Sub Elements
    • PersonalName
    • CorporateName
    • Jurisdiction
    • Contact
    • Email
    • Sector
  • DC.Contributor Content
    • default:user - user at publish time
  • DC.Contributor scheme
    • X.500
• DC.Format - the data format and optionally, dimensions - for example, size, duration - of the resource.

  The format is used to identify the software and possibly hardware that might be needed to display or operate the resource.

  Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the list of Internet Media Types [MIME].

  • DC.Format Sub Elements
    • Extent
    • Medium
  • DC.Format scheme
    • IMT - Internet Media Type
    • Physical
    • ISO - International Standards Organisation format