Current best practice in the use of dublin core for. Rfc 2731 encoding dublin core metadata in html december 1999 2. This page is an explanation of the dublin core and item type metadata terms that need to be filled in when adding items to a collection. Metadata elements from these sets could be linked with dublin core metadata to meet the need for extensibility. Please see the dcmi metadata terms for the current documentation about the dublin core element set 1.
Sometimes they actually mean the dublin core metadata initiative or dcmi. This document draws on the existing recommendations for encoding dublin core metadata in html, including documents by john kunze, simon cox, eric miller and andy powell, and on comments made by julian reschke. The dublin core metadata element set is a vocabulary of fifteen properties for use in resource description. The default format for benchmark document metadata is the dublin core metadata initiative dcmi simple dc element specification, as described in 11 and. Home dublin core and item type metadata descriptions.
It describes the content, character, provisos, and other characteristics of data. Dublin core metadata initiative dcmi dcmi is an open organization supporting innovation in metadata design and best practices across the metadata ecology. The name dublin is due to its origin at a 1995 invitational workshop in dublin, ohio. When people say dublin core, they usually mean one of two different but related things. Html, dublin core, and non dublin core metadata the dublin core dc metadata initiative dchome has produced a small set of resource description categories dc1, or elements of metadata literally, data about data.
Those involved in developing new syntax encoding guidelines for dublin core metadata or developing metadata application profiles based on the dublin core should also become familiar with the dc abstract model. Dublin core and item type metadata descriptions iowa. For example, a metadata system common in libraries, the library catalog. This paper describes the design of an electronic journals application where the article header information is held as dublin core metadata.