Dublin Core

The Dublin Core is a set of standards for the use of the Resource Description Format (RDF) dialect of XML, to describe library metadata.

Table of contents

1 The elements 2 References 3 See also

The elements

The first standard published is the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. It consists of 15 metadata elements which may or may not be present and each element may as well be repeated.

1. Title
2. Creator
3. Subject
4. Description
5. Publisher
6. Contributor
7. Date
8. Type
9. Format
10. Identifier
11. Source
12. Language
13. Relation
14. Coverage
15. Rights.

One Document Type Definition (DTD) based on Dublin Core is the 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.

References

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

See also

• Semantic Web