About Dublin Core

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

Named after Dublin, Ohio (not Ireland), home of OCLC, which owns the Dublin Core as well as other library-related entities, including the Dewey Decimal System.

See http://dublincore.org

Goals of Dublin Core

1. Simplicity
2. Shared semantics
3. Extensible
4. International

Characteristics of a Dublin Core (DC) record

1. All elements are optional
2. All elements are repeatable
3. Elements may be displayed in any order

15 Elements of DC

found at http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/

1. Contributor - an entity responsible for making contributions to a resource
2. Coverage
3. Creator - an entity primarily responsible for the creation of a resource
4. Date - a point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
5. Description
6. Format
7. Identifier
8. Language
9. Publisher - an entity responsible for making a resource available
10. Relation - a related resource
11. Rights
12. Source
13. Subject - the topic of the resource
14. Title - a name given to the resource
15. Type - The nature or genre of the resource