The Dublin Core (DC)
| Introduction | References | Corpus Structure | Corpus Information |
| Document Information | Header Information | Metadata Overview |
Last update: 09-Aug-2000
The Dublin Core is a metadata element set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for author-generated description of Web resources, it has attracted the attention of formal resource description communities such as museums, libraries, government agencies, and commercial organizations.
Information about the Dublin Core comes from the web-page (The Dublin Core MetaData Initiative, http://purl.oclc.org/dc/).
| Title | A name given to the resource |
| Creator | An entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource |
| Subject | The 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 contributions to the content of the resource |
| Date | A date associated with an event in the life cycle 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 |