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DCMI Metadata Terms

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This document is an up-to-date, authoritative specification of all metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative. Included are the fifteen terms of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set (also known as "the Dublin Core") plus several dozen properties, classes, datatypes, and vocabulary encoding schemes. The "Dublin Core" plus these extension vocabularies are collectively referred to as "DCMI metadata terms" ("Dublin Core terms" for short). These terms are intended to be used in combination with metadata terms from other, compatible vocabularies in the context of application profiles.

Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Glossary:

This document follows the DCMI Abstract Model [DCAM] in its use of the following terminology:

term: A property (element), class, vocabulary encoding scheme, or syntax encoding scheme.
URI: A Uniform Resource Identifier [URI] or Internationalized Resource Identifier [IRI].

In addition, this document uses the following terminology:

Linked Data Competency Index (LDCI)

Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Linked Data Competency Index has been published in Github with a backend repository https://github.com/dcmi/ldci. The Competency Index is also available in Chinese.