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Dublin Core Metadata Explained

Dublin Core is a metadata standard that originated from an international workshop in 1995. It provides a simple and standardized set of conventions for describing digital resources with 15 core metadata elements like title, creator, subject, and date. Dublin Core is widely used to describe digital materials online and makes use of XML. It aims to create a digital "library card catalog" to improve searchability of resources.

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Dublin Core Metadata Explained

Dublin Core is a metadata standard that originated from an international workshop in 1995. It provides a simple and standardized set of conventions for describing digital resources with 15 core metadata elements like title, creator, subject, and date. Dublin Core is widely used to describe digital materials online and makes use of XML. It aims to create a digital "library card catalog" to improve searchability of resources.

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D U B LIN C O R E

D U BLIN CO RE
Dublin refers to Dublin, Ohio where the work

originated from an international workshop


hosted in 1995 by OCLC.
Core refers to the fact that metadata element
set is a basic but expandable core list.
The semantics of Dublin Core were established
and maintained by an international, crossdisciplinary group of professionals from
librarianship, computer science, text encoding,
museum and other related fields of scholarship
and practice.

D U BLIN CO RE
Is a standard for cross-domain

information resources description.


Provides a simple and standardized set
of conventions for describing things
online in ways that make them easier to
find.
Widely used to describe digital materials
such as video, sound, image, text, also
web pages, make use of XML and are
resource description framework based.

D U BLIN CO RE
Is an initiative to create a digital

library card catalog, made up of


metadata elements that offer
expanded cataloging information and
improved document indexing for
search engine programs.

D U BLIN CO RE LEVELS
Simple Dublin Core
Comprises of fifteen elements
Title, creator, subject, description, publisher,
contributor, date, type, format, identifier,
source, language, relation, coverage, and rights.

Qualified Dublin Core


Include three additional elements
Audience
Provenance
Rights Holder

SIM PLE D U BLIN CO RE


Simple Dublin Core Metadata

Element Set (DCMES) consists of 15


metadata
CONTENT elements:
INTELECTUAL INSTANTIATION
PROPERTY
Coverage

Contributor

Date

Description

Creator

Format

Type

Publisher

Identifiers

Relation

Rights

Language

Source
Subject
Title

SIM PLE D U BLIN CO RE


Each element is optional and can be

repeated.
DCMI established standard ways to refine
elements and encourages the use of
encoding and vocabulary schemes.
There is no predictable order in Dublin Core
for presenting or using the elements.
Element refinements is an ongoing process
done by working groups of the DCMI that
makes the meaning of an elements
narrower or more specific

Q U ALIFIED D U BLIN CO RE
Increases the specificity of metadata

by adding information about


encoding schemes, enumerated lists
of values, or other processing clues.
It enables searches to be more
specific but qualifiers are more
complex and pose more challenges
to interoperability.

D U BLIN CO RE STREN G TH
Simplicity, as anyone can use it or at

least part of it.


Is the metadata choice for
institutional repositories, where user
upload their own data and create
their own metadata.

D U BLIN CO RE W EEKN ESS


There is a wide variety of interpretations

and variations in what is put into each


element, because it is so simple.
Difficult to provide federated searching
over the holding of many institutions.
eg. date field could contain the date that

the item is digitized, the date the record was


created, the date the record was added to a
collection or reworked, the date of previous
or current publication,

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