Draft on DCMI

Type Element Working Draft

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

The Dublin Core™ Resource Type (DC.Type) element is used to describe the category or genre of the content of the resource. For the sake of interoperability, the primary value should be selected from the enumerated list presented here. Values for DC. Type selected from these lists will be used without annotation or qualification in simple Dublin Core™.

Subelement Working Draft

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

This report is a record of the efforts of the Subelement working group constituted following the Helsinki Dublin Core™ Metadata Workshop (DC-5) of October, 1997. The recommendations are provisional and can be expected to evolve in the light of further implementation experience.

Relation Element Working Draft

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

This report is a record of the efforts of the Relations working group constituted following the Helsinki Metadata Workshop (DC-5) of October, 1997. The recommendations are provisional and can be expected to evolve in the light of further implementation experience.

Plans for a distributed registry of Dublin Core™ in multiple languages.

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

Note: This is a provisional version for discussion only; points 6 through 8 have not been approved by the group as a whole.

Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages

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

The Dublin Core™ is a set of fifteen basic categories (such as creator, title, subject, and publisher) for describing information resources (see http://dublincore.org/). When embedded in documents on the World-Wide Web, these Core descriptions can be extracted by global indexing services for use like a sort of library catalog. Some first adopters of the Dublin Core™ appreciate the generic simplicity of these fifteen basic categories and use them "as is" -- let's call them the "minimalists". Others -- let's call them the "structuralists" -- use qualifiers to narrow the semantics of Core categories for specialized uses -- for example, to specify that a particular "creator" is a "composer" as opposed to an "author" or "photographer". The success of the Dublin Core™ as a standard will depend on its ability to satisfy the structuralists' need for this kind of specificity without compromising the semantic integrity of the fifteen broad categories expected by the minimalists.

List of Resource Types

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

The main changes in this version of the list of Resource Types are:

addition of model with definition
addition of party with definition
addition of place with definition
revision of definitions for: collection, physical object, service, sound
revision to "future work"

Proposed List of Resource Types:

Format Element Working Draft

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

Format Position Paper (Revised)

The Format (DC.Format) of a resource refers to the medium, data format, and materials of the instantiation of that resource, including its size if required. This is important in resource discovery as it allows a user to discriminate on the basis of the software, hardware, and other infrastructure that might be needed to display, operate or otherwise use the resource. For the sake of interoperability, the value of the data format or media should be selected from an enumerated list, as discussed below. Values for DC.Format selected from these lists will be used without annotation in simple Dublin Core™.

Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using XML

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

Introduction
The DCMI Abstract Model and DC-XML
The DC-XML Syntax
GRDDL
Appendix A: Text Representation of Examples
Notes
References

Education Working Group: Draft Proposal

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

This document is a Proposal from the Dublin Core™ Education Working Group [DCEd] to the Dublin Core™ Usage Committee of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative [DCMI]. The content of this document is intended to reflect the consensus reached within DCEd. It reports decisions reached by DCEd through its online discussions and face-to-face meetings in Frankfurt (October 25-27, 1999) and Melbourne (February 19-20, 2000). A Report of Deliberations is referenced throughout in support of the Proposal.

DCMI Type Working Group - Review of RFC 2413

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

The main changes from the earlier definition in RFC 2413 are:

Adoption of ISO 11179 representation
Deletion of examples
More general statement about use of enumerated lists and indication of SCHEME used
Statement to contrast with Format

Proposed Definition

Name: Resource Type
Identifier: Type
Definition: The nature or genre of the content of the resource
Obligation: Optional
Datatype: Character String
Maximum Occurrence: Unlimited
Comment: Recommended best practice is to select a value from an enumerated list and to identify the list being used. Type may be repeated as necessary to include different categories. To describe the form of the manifestation of the content (medium, MIME type, size, etc.) of the resource, use FORMAT element.

DCMI Government Application Profile

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

Introduction
Namespaces and Format of entries
DC-Extensions and additions
DC-Government Application Profile

1. Introduction

In June 2001, the first of a series of seminars was held in Brussels under the general title 'Managing information resources for e-government' (MIReG). Attended by representatives from many European governments as well as Australia, Canada and New Zealand, it revealed that we were all in similar positions regarding tagging information to improve acessibility and manageability.

DC-Libraries - Library Application Profile - Draft

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

DC-Library Application Profile (DC-Lib)

I. Introduction

The concept of application profiles (see Application profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas) has emerged within the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative as a way to declare which elements from which namespaces are used in a particular application or project. Application profiles are defined as schemas which consist of data elements drawn from one or more namespaces, combined together by implementors, and optimised for a particular local application.

Date Element Working Draft

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

This report is a record of the efforts of the Date working group constituted following the Helsinki Dublin Core™ Metadata Workshop (DC-5) of October, 1997. The recommendations are provisional and can be expected to evolve in the light of further implementation experience.

Data Model Working Draft

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

1. General

1.1
The DC community will "borrow or steal" from other communities where reasonable. This applies in particular to terminology, schemas, vocabularies etc.

Coverage Working Group - Review of RFC2413

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

A proposed revision to the definition of Coverage appears below. The main changes from the RFC 2413 definition are

Clarification of element definition
Removal of comments on experimental nature of element
Explicit recognition of the main uses of Coverage within the implementor community
Adoption of ISO 11179 representation, including separation of "Definition" from "Comment"

Proposed definition for Coverage

Name: Coverage

Coverage Element Working Draft

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

Definition
Use of Qualifiers
Use of Schemes
Examples

Definition

The Coverage element describes the spatial and temporal characteristics of the object or resource and is the key element for supporting spatial or temporal range searching on document-like objects that are spatially or temporally referenced. Coverage may be modified by spatial or temporal qualifiers.

Bibliographic Citation Working Draft

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

I understand from the Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Working Groups (draft 1.4) that once a Chair has established consensus within the WG, the Group's recommendations should be circulated to the dc-general list for comment. Below, you will find our Recommendations. (Please refer to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-citation.html if you would like to see who is in the Working Group and the discussions behind the recommendations.) Comments should be posted to dc-general by Monday 19 July.

Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

A MoinMoin Wiki Syntax for Description Set Profiles

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

About this document
Design and description of the wiki syntax
Usage example
References

1. About this document

This document describes a MoinMoin wiki syntax for a Description Set Profile as defined in the DCMI Working Draft "Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles" of March 2008 [DC-DSP], which in turn is based on the DCMI Abstract Model [ABSTRACT-MODEL]. It is recommended to have some understanding of the concepts of Description Set Profile (abbreviated DSP in the rest of this document) before reading this document.

Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

1. Introduction

The DCMI Description Set Profile specification describes an information model and XML expression of a "Description Set Profile" (DSP). The term description set and the associated concepts used in this specification are defined as in the DCMI Abstract model [DCAM].

Draft on DCMI

Type Element Working Draft

Subelement Working Draft

Relation Element Working Draft

Plans for a distributed registry of Dublin Core™ in multiple languages.

Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages

List of Resource Types

Format Element Working Draft

Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using XML

Contents

Education Working Group: Draft Proposal

DCMI Type Working Group - Review of RFC 2413

Proposed Definition

DCMI Government Application Profile

Contents

1. Introduction

DC-Libraries - Library Application Profile - Draft

DC-Library Application Profile (DC-Lib)

I. Introduction

Date Element Working Draft

Data Model Working Draft

Coverage Working Group - Review of RFC2413

Proposed definition for Coverage

Coverage Element Working Draft

Table of Contents

Definition

Bibliographic Citation Working Draft

Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles

Table of contents

A MoinMoin Wiki Syntax for Description Set Profiles

Table of contents

1. About this document

Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles

Table of contents

1. Introduction