Dublin Core

Definition

• Dublin Core is a very popular metadata standard and managed by the The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

• Quote from the Using Dublin Core (19:20, 9 May 2006 (MEST)): The Dublin Core metadata standard is a simple yet effective element set for describing a wide range of networked resources. The Dublin Core standard includes two levels: Simple and Qualified. Simple Dublin Core comprises fifteen elements; Qualified Dublin Core includes three additional elements (Audience, Provenance and RightsHolder), as well as a group of element refinements (also called qualifiers) that refine the semantics of the elements in ways that may be useful in resource discovery. The semantics of Dublin Core have been established by an international, cross-disciplinary group of professionals from librarianship, computer science, text encoding, the museum community, and other related fields of scholarship and practice.

See also: Learning Object Metadata Standard

Technical details

under construction

• Dublin Core is an RDF application.

The Simple Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) consists of 15 metadata elements:

1. Title
2. Creator
3. Subject
4. Description
5. Publisher
6. Contributor
7. Date
8. Type
9. Format
10. Identifier
11. Source
12. Language
13. Relation
14. Coverage
15. Rights

Links

Dublin Core

• Dublin Core Initiative Home
• Using Dublin Core (The official tutorial)

RDF

• W3C RDF Primer
• [http://www.la-grange.net/w3c/REC-rdf-syntax/ RDF Primer - en français

References

• Mason, J. & Sutton, S. (2005). Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Education Working Group. Draft Proposal.