Model on DCMI

The Singapore Framework for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles

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

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.

On Information Factoring in Dublin Metadata Records

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

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 The DC Note in its current form is UNPUBLISHED and undergoing minor edits for publication on the dublincore.org site.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.

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.

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

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

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

DCMI Abstract Model

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Introduction
DCMI Abstract Model
Descriptions, description sets and records
Values
DCMI Abstract Model semantics
Encoding guidelines
Terminology
Appendix A - Relationship to legacy DCMI Grammatical Principles
References
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

This document specifies an abstract model for Dublin Core™ metadata. The primary purpose of this document is to specify the components and constructs used in Dublin Core™ metadata. It defines the nature of the components used and describes how those components are combined to create information structures. It provides an information model which is independent of any particular encoding syntax. Such an information model allows us to gain a better understanding of the kinds of descriptions that we are encoding and facilitates the development of better mappings and cross-syntax translations.

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.

A Definition of Thesauri and Classification as Indexing Tools

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

This message summarizes the definition of thesauri and classification as indexing tools and gives the distinction between entity (taxonomic) and bibliographic classification. It also explains the difference between thesauri and classification and the difference between the general classification schemes suggested for DCMES element SUBJECT: LCC, DCC and UDC.

Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core™ Metadata

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction
Level 1: Shared Term Definitions
Level 2: Formal Semantic Interoperability
Level 3: Description Set Syntactic Interoperability
Level 4: Description Set Profile Interoperability
References
Acknowledgements

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].

Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using the DC-Text format

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction
The DCMI Abstract Model and DC-Text
Some Features of the DC-Text Syntax
The DC-Text Syntax
References
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

The "Description Set Model" of the DCMI Abstract Model [DCAM] describes the constructs that make up a DC metadata description set. This document specifies a syntax for serialising, or representing, a DC metadata description set in plain text. The format is referred to as "DC-Text". A plain text format for serialisation of such description sets is useful as a means of presenting examples in a human-readable form which highlights the constructs of the DCMI Abstract Model, and also as a means of comparing the information represented in other machine-processable formats.

DCMI Grammatical Principles

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Scope of this grammar

This grammar presents the typology of DCMI metadata terms and
describes the principles underlying their definition and use.
As defined in the "Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core™",
a DCMI term is "a DCMI element, a DCMI qualifier or term from
a DCMI-maintained controlled vocabulary." A DCMI namespace,
in turn, is "a collection of DCMI terms" [2].

Element Refinement in Dublin Core™ Metadata

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Elements, Properties and Statements

Dublin Core™ elements and element refinements are properties. A property is "a specific aspect, characteristic, attribute, or relation used to describe resources". According to the DCMI Abstract Model, all these "aspects, characteristics, attributes and relations" involve relationships between resources [DCMIAM]. Each property corresponds to a type of relationship, such as the notion that a resource "is created by" an agent (the agent is a second resource), or that a resource "is about the subject of" some concept (the concept is also a resource).

Dublin Core™ Collection Description Application Profile: Data Model

Fri, 06 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0000

1. The Data Model

This document summarises a subset of the data model described in An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues [1], and proposes the addition of a new entity type, Service.

DCMI Usage Board Review of Application Profiles

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0000

"Application Profile" defined

For the purposes of DCMI Usage Board review, an Application Profile (AP) is a declaration of which metadata terms an organization, information resource, application, or user community uses in its metadata. Moreover:

Expressing Qualified Dublin Core™ in RDF / XML

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0 Introduction
1 Unqualified DC: The hedgehog model
2 Qualified DC
3 DC in collaboration with other vocabularies and DumbDown
4 Language Qualification
5 Appendix: Schema Drafts
6 Appendix: Summary DC Qualifiers
7 Acknowledgments
8 References

Model on DCMI

The Singapore Framework for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles

1. Introduction

On Information Factoring in Dublin Metadata Records

Dublin Core™ Architecture Working Group: Discussion Note

Status of this Document

Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages

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

Table of contents

DCMI Abstract Model

Table of contents

1. Introduction

Data Model Working Draft

A Definition of Thesauri and Classification as Indexing Tools

Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core™ Metadata

Table of contents

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

Table of contents

1. Introduction

Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using the DC-Text format

Table of contents

1. Introduction

DCMI Grammatical Principles

Element Refinement in Dublin Core™ Metadata

Elements, Properties and Statements

Dublin Core™ Collection Description Application Profile: Data Model

1. The Data Model

DCMI Usage Board Review of Application Profiles

"Application Profile" defined

Expressing Qualified Dublin Core™ in RDF / XML

Table of Contents