Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
From the DCMI website:
"The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development
of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes
and business models."
The "Dublin Core" is a set of fifteen attributes or fields of metadata
that can be broadly applied to a wide variety of disciplines. The DC element
set consists of the following items:
- Title
- Creator
- Subject
- Description
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Date
- Type
- Format
- Identifier
- Source
- Language
- Relation
- Coverage
- Rights
This element set covers a good deal of the metadata that will be stored about
an object. With the qualifiers, you can get even more specific about the object
description. The intent here is for interoperability of metadata so however
you choose to use the elements, your object description should be able to make
sense at different levels of detail (not just the most detailed level)
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