Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages: Release History

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Release: Current Version
Release: 1997-03-01

Dublin Core™ in Multiple Language Working Group - Metadata Semantics Across Languages: Dublin Cores in languages other than English Working Draft

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

Title:	Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages: Dublin Core™ in languages other than English
Creator:	Thomas Baker
Date Issued:	1997-03
Identifier:	http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/multilingual-semantics/1997-03-01/
Replaces:	Not Applicable
Is Replaced By:	Not Applicable
Latest Version:	http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/multilingual-semantics/
Status of Document:	This is a DCMI Working Draft
Description of Document:	A discussion of the issues surrounding the implementation of the Dublin Core™ in languages other than English.

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.

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Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages: Release History

Dublin Core™ in Multiple Language Working Group - Metadata Semantics Across Languages: Dublin Cores in languages other than English Working Draft

Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages: Dublin Core™ in languages other than English