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DC - Summary
Terms of use
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Terms of use
These contents have been obtained from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) official Web site and edited for presentation. Please refer to the DCMI official Web site for additional information on terms of use.
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Dublin Core element set is made up of 15 metadata (data that describes data) elements that offer expanded cataloging information and improved document indexing for search engine programs.
The 15 metadata elements used by Dublin Core are:
- Title, a name given to the resource
- Creator, an entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource
- Subject, a topic of the content of the resource
- Description, an account of the content of the resource
- Publisher, an entity responsible for making the resource available
- Contributor, an entity responsible for making the resource available
- Date, a date of an event in the lifecycle of the resource
- Type, the nature or genre of the content of the resource
- Format, the physical or digital manifestation of the resource
- Identifier, an unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
- Source, a Reference to a resource from which the present resource is derived
- Language, a language of the intellectual content of the resource
- Relation, a reference to a related resource
- Coverage, the extent or scope of the content of the resource
- Rights, information about rights held in and over the resource
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