Past on DCMI

Using Dublin Core

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NOTE: This document was maintained from 2001 to 2005 as an entry point for new users of Dublin Core™ wishing to create simple descriptive records for information resources (for example, electronic documents) and as a ready reference document for specialists. It has been superseded by more recent guidance materials.

Type Element Working Draft

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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™.

The Use of Dublin Core™ Metadata in WebDAV

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Status of this Memo

This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.

The Singapore Framework for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles

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1. Introduction

The Singapore Framework for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles is a framework for designing metadata applications for maximum interoperability and for documenting such applications for maximum reusability. The framework defines a set of descriptive components that are necessary or useful for documenting an Application Profile and describes how how these documentary standards relate to standard domain models and Semantic Web foundation standards. The framework forms a basis for reviewing Application Profiles for documentary completeness and for conformance with Web-architectural principles.

Subelement Working Draft

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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.

Representing Peoples Names in Dublin Core

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This note provides some guidance on representing people's names in metadata.

1. The Problem

While most people only have one name, that name may be written down in many different ways. The name may be written in full (e.g. 'John Stuart Mills'). Components of the name can be abbreviated (e.g. 'John S. Mills', or 'J.S. Mills'), or omitted (e.g. 'John Mills'). Names may be extended by titles or honorifics (e.g. 'Mr. John Mills'). The components of the name may be reordered (e.g. 'Mills, John Stuart'). Complexity is added by the fact that people frequently do not use their 'official' name. People often prefer to use shortened or alternative forms of their name (e.g. 'Kathy' for 'Kathryn', and using 'Jack' for 'John' was once common in Australia). Some people prefer to use their second name instead of their given name (e.g. 'Margaret Read' instead of 'Frances M. Read').

Relation Element Working Draft

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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.

RDF Schema Declaration of Relation Types

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This document provides an RDF Schema declaration of the Relation Types defined by the Dublin Core™ Relation Type Working Group. This schema declaration consists of both machine-understandable information and human-readable prose for each of the agreed upon Relation Types. The machine-understandable declaration of these types are found embedded in the HTML source code. Human readable declarations of the relation types are as followed:

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

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

On Information Factoring in Dublin Metadata Records

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Dublin Core™ Architecture Working Group: Discussion Note

Status of this Document

This document, first published in 1996, is being made available as a Dublin Core™ discussion note as part of the DC-Architecture Working Group's effort to formalise an XML/RDF representation of the Dublin Core™. While the document is 5 years old, many of the issues and observations made are worth reconsidering in the light of subsequent work on RDF and XML. The DC Note in its current form is UNPUBLISHED and undergoing minor edits for publication on the dublincore.org site. Contact Dan Brickley (dc-architecture co-chair) if you have any queries regarding this process.

Notes on DCMI specifications for expressing Dublin Core™ metadata in RDF

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Introduction
Background
Support for domains and ranges
Support for value strings
Deprecated constructs
Other changes
References

1. Introduction

In January 2008, DCMI released "Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata in the Resource Description Framework (RDF)" as a DCMI Recommendation [DC-RDF]. This Recommendation replaces two legacy DCMI documents:

Names in Dublin Core

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There has seemed to be an irresistible inclination to incorporate into the Dublin Core™ elements information associated with names that might be useful to users of metadata records. I would like to propose that we adopt instead the general strategy for names that has worked well in libraries for many decades. Libraries store only authorized forms of names in metadata records for library resources--any other information on the name resides in a separate record for the name itself. This avoids just the sort of muddle that we have been struggling with in the DC data model, whereby we find ourselves endlessly arguing about whether a subelement modifies a "real" resource or a name (which may also be a resource in its own right but is nonetheless primarily a name in the context of the "real" resource). Thankfully, RDF supports this kind of structure, so we need not invent some additional box to accomplish our goal.

Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages

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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

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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:

Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML

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1. Introduction

This document provides guidelines for people implementing Dublin Core™ [DCMI] metadata applications using XML [XML]. It considers both simple (unqualified) DC and qualified DC applications. In each case, the underlying metadata model is described (in a syntax neutral way), followed by some specific guidelines for XML implementations. Some guidance on the use of non-DC metadata is also provided.

Format Element Working Draft

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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 Qualified Dublin Core™ in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements

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1. Introduction

This document describes how a Dublin Core™ [DCMI] metadata record can be embedded into an HTML/XHTML Web page using HTML/XHTML elements.

Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using XML

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

Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)

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Introduction
Summary of the RDF conceptual model
Namespace abbreviations
Representing DCAM constructs using the RDF Model
Some notes on semantics

References> Acknowledgements> Appendix A: Examples

Education Working Group: Draft Proposal

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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.

Past on DCMI

Using Dublin Core

Type Element Working Draft

The Use of Dublin Core™ Metadata in WebDAV

The Singapore Framework for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles

1. Introduction

Subelement Working Draft

Representing Peoples Names in Dublin Core

Relation Element Working Draft

RDF Schema Declaration of Relation Types

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

On Information Factoring in Dublin Metadata Records

Dublin Core™ Architecture Working Group: Discussion Note

Status of this Document

Notes on DCMI specifications for expressing Dublin Core™ metadata in RDF

Table of contents

1. Introduction

Names in Dublin Core

Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages

List of Resource Types

Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML

1. Introduction

Format Element Working Draft

Expressing Qualified Dublin Core™ in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements

1. Introduction

Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using XML

Contents

Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)

Table of contents

Education Working Group: Draft Proposal