The Dublin Core is a Metadata (computing) standard for describing digital objects (including webpages), often expressed in XML. It was so named because the first meeting of metadata and web specialists which saw its birth was held in the town of Dublin, Ohio in the United States. == The elements == The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, part of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Recommendation (see Dublin_Core#References) consists of 16 optional metadata elements, any of which could be repeated or omitted. # Title # Creator # Subject # Description # Publisher # Contributor # Date # Type # Format # Identifier # Source # Language # Relation # Coverage # Rights # Audience Unlike many other document metadata standards, there is no prescribed order in Dublin Core for presenting or using the elements. In the list above the "Title" element was put first and the "Audience" element last, but it could just as correctly have been the reverse, or all the elements could have been presented or used in alphabetical order. There are two ways of using the elements: With or without extensions. Using them without extensions means using "DC simple". Using them with extensions means using "DC qualified". The extensions are called refinements or qualifiers. For instance, "created", "valid", "issued" and "modified" are the recommended refinements of the "date" element. Thus, dc.date.created would be the name for the element for the date of creation of a document in DC qualified. Several elements have schemes or a ready made controlled vocabulary. For instance, the "Type" element has 12 recommended terms: Collection, dataset, event, image, interactive resource, service, software, sound, text, physical object, still image, moving image. == Application Examples == One Document Type Definition based on Dublin Core is the [http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/omf/|Open Source Metadata Framework] (OMF) specification. OMF is in turn used by ScrollKeeper, which is used by the GNOME desktop and KDE help browsers and the ScrollServer documentation server. PBCore is also based on Dublin Core. == See also == * Interoperability * Open Archives Initiative * Semantic Web == References == * [1] [http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core Metadata Initiative] * [2] [http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-03-21-a.html Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Publishes DCMI Abstract Model] (March 2005) * [3] [http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ DCMI Metadata Terms] (June 2005) Knowledge representation|Library and information science
=="audience" hard to find?== The audience element is now officially part of the DCMES: see: http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/10/06/current-elements/index.shtml URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/audience Name: audience Label: Audience Definition: A class of entity for whom the resource is intended or useful. Comment: A class of entity may be determined by the creator or the publisher or by a third party. Type of term: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/#element Status: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/#recommended Date issued: 2001-05-21 This version: http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/dc/#audience-002 -- [2005-06-22] Removing the following comment:
"The recommended standard is considered to be poorly organized; notable flaws include a difficulty in finding definitions of the individual metadata elements (the "audience" element is particularly difficult to locate)."
1) Considered by whom? (This is just personal opinion.) 2) Clearly listed now at http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ --User:Liberty Miller 23:33, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) I had several people at work try to find things in the DCMI pages. They all failed. The DCMI Web site is one of the most byzantine, overly complex sites I have ever seen. And I have seen a lot of Web sites during my work as a usability consultant. It might seem logical to a professional cataloguing librarian or a computer scientist but to normal human beings it is an amalgalm of edicts where outdated versiosn are as easily accessible as the correct recent ones instead of being archived and clearly marked as such. Of course, you might still say that it is just an opinion on my part, following these tests. But isn't its clarity also an opinion on your part? --User:AlainV 04:16, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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The Dublin Core is a Metadata (computing) standard for describing digital objects (including webpages), often expressed in XML. It was so named because the first meeting of metadata and web specialists which saw its birth was held in the town of Dublin, Ohio in the United States. == The elements == The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, part of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Recommendation (see Dublin_Core#References) consists of 16 optional metadata elements, any of which could be repeated or omitted. # Title # Creator # Subject # Description # Publisher # Contributor # Date # Type # Format # Identifier # Source # Language # Relation # Coverage # Rights # Audience Unlike many other document metadata standards, there is no prescribed order in Dublin Core for presenting or using the elements. In the list above the "Title" element was put first and the "Audience" element last, but it could just as correctly have been the reverse, or all the elements could have been presented or used in alphabetical order. There are two ways of using the elements: With or without extensions. Using them without extensions means using "DC simple". Using them with extensions means using "DC qualified". The extensions are called refinements or qualifiers. For instance, "created", "valid", "issued" and "modified" are the recommended refinements of the "date" element. Thus, dc.date.created would be the name for the element for the date of creation of a document in DC qualified. Several elements have schemes or a ready made controlled vocabulary. For instance, the "Type" element has 12 recommended terms: Collection, dataset, event, image, interactive resource, service, software, sound, text, physical object, still image, moving image. == Application Examples == One Document Type Definition based on Dublin Core is the [http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/omf/|Open Source Metadata Framework] (OMF) specification. OMF is in turn used by ScrollKeeper, which is used by the GNOME desktop and KDE help browsers and the ScrollServer documentation server. PBCore is also based on Dublin Core. == See also == * Interoperability * Open Archives Initiative * Semantic Web == References == * [1] [http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core Metadata Initiative] * [2] [http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-03-21-a.html Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Publishes DCMI Abstract Model] (March 2005) * [3] [http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ DCMI Metadata Terms] (June 2005) Knowledge representation|Library and information science
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=="audience" hard to find?== The audience element is now officially part of the DCMES: see: http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/10/06/current-elements/index.shtml URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/audience Name: audience Label: Audience Definition: A class of entity for whom the resource is intended or useful. Comment: A class of entity may be determined by the creator or the publisher or by a third party. Type of term: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/#element Status: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/#recommended Date issued: 2001-05-21 This version: http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/dc/#audience-002 -- [2005-06-22] Removing the following comment:
"The recommended standard is considered to be poorly organized; notable flaws include a difficulty in finding definitions of the individual metadata elements (the "audience" element is particularly difficult to locate)."
1) Considered by whom? (This is just personal opinion.) 2) Clearly listed now at http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ --User:Liberty Miller 23:33, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) I had several people at work try to find things in the DCMI pages. They all failed. The DCMI Web site is one of the most byzantine, overly complex sites I have ever seen. And I have seen a lot of Web sites during my work as a usability consultant. It might seem logical to a professional cataloguing librarian or a computer scientist but to normal human beings it is an amalgalm of edicts where outdated versiosn are as easily accessible as the correct recent ones instead of being archived and clearly marked as such. Of course, you might still say that it is just an opinion on my part, following these tests. But isn't its clarity also an opinion on your part? --User:AlainV 04:16, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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