Dublin Core

DCMI Metadata Terms

The fifteen terms of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set plus several dozen properties, classes, datatypes, and vocabulary encoding schemes.

Dublin Core Specifications

Current and past specifications developed and maintained by DCMI

Dublin Core Schemas

DCMI term declarations represented in various machine-processable schema languages, defining the structure and syntax of metadata specifications.

LRMI

The LRMI specification is a collection of classes, properties and concept schemes for markup and description of educational resources.

BIBO

Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO) is a Semantic Web vocabulary for expressing citations and bibliographic references.

DCTAP

The DC Tabular Application Profiles specification is a simple model for application profiles that can be developed in a spreadsheet program.

Annual Conferences

Continuing an unbroken sequence of more than twenty years of DCMI Annual Conferences.

Webinars & Tutorials

Occasional webinars and online tutorials orgainized by the DCMI.

DCMI 2022 Virtual Conference

DCMI Community

DCMI is defined by its community which is responsible for the innovative developments and evolving good practices.

Education Committee

The DCMI Education Committee coordinates activities and publications that teach and inform users about current developments and technologies for metadata.

LRMI Working Group

The LRMI™ Working Group is charged with defining and executing DCMI work on the LRMI family of metadata specifications.

Application Profiles Working Group

Working Group for a revised framework to support application profiles, a revised abstract model, and core vocabulary of components and constraints.

News

DCMI Blog

Occasional blog posts report on developments in metadata innovation and practice.

Metadata Basics

The DCMI approach to metadata aims at achieving pragmatic interoperability among traditional and newer technologies on the basis of knowledge graph design principles.

Dublin Core™ User Guide

A basic guide in the use of Dublin Core and other DCMI vocabularies.

Glossary

A guide to terminology used in the DCMI community, past and present, with reflections on how our language for talking about metadata has evolved.

LRMI Resources

Archived LRMI resources including presentations, reports, and implementations.

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Specification status: Draft

Draft recommendations

Name
Bibliographic Citation Working Draft
Coverage Element Working Draft
Coverage Working Group - Review of RFC2413
Data Model Working Draft
Date Element Working Draft
DC-Libraries - Library Application Profile - Draft
DCMI Government Application Profile
DCMI Type Working Group - Review of RFC 2413
Education Working Group: Draft Proposal
Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using XML
Format Element Working Draft
List of Resource Types
Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages
Plans for a distributed registry of Dublin Core™ in multiple languages.
Relation Element Working Draft
Subelement Working Draft
Type Element Working Draft
Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles
A MoinMoin Wiki Syntax for Description Set Profiles
Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles

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