Dublin Core Element Set
The Elements
| Contributor | Coverage | Creator | Date | Description | Format | Identifier | Language | Publisher | Relation | Rights | Source | Subject | Title | Type |
contributor |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor |
| Label: | Contributor |
| Definition: | An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource. |
| Comment: | Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Contributor should be used to indicate the entity. |
coverage |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/coverage |
| Label: | Coverage |
| Definition: | The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant. |
| Comment: | Spatial topic and spatial applicability may be a named place or a location specified by its geographic coordinates. Temporal topic may be a named period, date, or date range. A jurisdiction may be a named administrative entity or a geographic place to which the resource applies. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]. Where appropriate, named places or time periods can be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges. |
| References: | TGN - http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html |
creator |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator |
| Label: | Creator |
| Definition: | An entity primarily responsible for making the resource. |
| Comment: | 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. |
date |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date |
| Label: | Date |
| Definition: | A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource. |
| Comment: | Date may be used to express temporal information at any level of granularity. Recommended best practice is to use an encoding scheme, such as the W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF]. |
| References: | W3CDTF - http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime |
description |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description |
| Label: | Description |
| Definition: | An account of the resource. |
| Comment: | Description may include, but is not limited to, an abstract, a table of contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the resource. |
format |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/format |
| Label: | Format |
| Definition: | The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource. |
| Comment: | Examples of dimensions include size and duration. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the list of Internet Media Types [MIME]. |
| References: | MIME - http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/ |
identifier |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier |
| Label: | Identifier |
| Definition: | An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context. |
| Comment: | Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system. |
language |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/language |
| Label: | Language |
| Definition: | A language of the resource. |
| Comment: | Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as RFC 4646 [RFC4646]. |
| References: | RFC4646 - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt |
publisher |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/publisher |
| Label: | Publisher |
| Definition: | An entity responsible for making the resource available. |
| Comment: | Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Publisher should be used to indicate the entity. |
relation |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/relation |
| Label: | Relation |
| Definition: | A related resource. |
| Comment: | Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system. |
rights |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights |
| Label: | Rights |
| Definition: | Information about rights held in and over the resource. |
| Comment: | Typically, rights information includes a statement about various property rights associated with the resource, including intellectual property rights. |
source |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/source |
| Label: | Source |
| Definition: | A related resource from which the described resource is derived. |
| Comment: | The described resource may be derived from the related resource in whole or in part. Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system. |
subject |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/subject |
| Label: | Subject |
| Definition: | The topic of the resource. |
| Comment: | Typically, the subject will be represented using keywords, key phrases, or classification codes. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary. |
title |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title |
| Label: | Title |
| Definition: | A name given to the resource. |
| Comment: | Typically, a Title will be a name by which the resource is formally known. |
type |
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| URI: | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/type |
| Label: | Type |
| Definition: | The nature or genre of the resource. |
| Comment: | 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. |
| References: | DCMITYPE - http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/ |