-- Dublin Core Schema -- -- DublinCore attribute description url 'dublincore.html' prefix 'DC' label 'Dublin Core' icon syntax container attributes set Title, Creator, Subject, Description, Publisher, Contributor, Date, Type, Format, Source, Identifier, Language, Relation, Coverage, Rights Title attribute description 'The name given to the resource by the creator or publisher.' label 'Title' syntax string schemes 'Main' type, 'Alternative'type Creator attribute description 'The person or organization primarily responsible for creating the intellectual content of the resource. For example, authors in the case of written documents, artists, photographers, or illustrators in the case of visual resources.' label 'Author or Creator' syntax string schemes 'PersonalName' type, 'PersonalName.Address' type, 'CorporateName' type, 'CorporateName.Address' type Subject attribute description 'The topic of the resource. Typically, subject will be expressed as keywords or phrases that describe the subject or content of the resource. The use of controlled vocabularies and formal classification schemas is encouraged.' label 'Subject and Keywords' syntax string schemes 'LCSH' scheme Description attribute description 'A textual description of the content of the resource, including abstracts in the case of document-like objects or content descriptions in the case of visual resources.' label 'Description' syntax string Publisher attribute description 'The entity responsible for making the resource available in its present form, such as a publishing house, a university department, or a corporate entity.' label 'Publisher' syntax string schemes 'PersonalName' type, 'PersonalName.Address' type, 'CorporateName' type, 'CorporateName.Address' type Contributor attribute description 'A person or organization not specified in a creator element who has made significant intellectual contributions to the resource but whose contribution is secondary to any person or organization specified in a creator element(for example, editor, transcriber, and illustrator).' label 'Other Contributor' syntax string schemes 'PersonalName' type, 'PersonalName.Address' type, 'CorporateName' type, 'CorporateName.Address' type Date attribute description 'The date the resource was made available in its present form. Recommended best practice is an 8 digit number in the form YYYY-MM-DD as defined in http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime, a profile of ISO 8601. In this scheme, the date element 1994-11-05 corresponds to November 5, 1994. Many other schema are possible, but if used, they should be identified in an unambiguous manner.' label 'Date' syntax string schemes 'ISO8601' scheme, 'Created' type, 'Issued' type, 'Available' type, 'Acquired' type, 'DataGathered' type, 'Accepted' type, 'Valid' type Type attribute description 'The category of the resource, such as home page, novel, poem, working paper, technical report, essay, dictionary. For the sake of interoperability, type should be selected from an enumerated list that is under development in the workshop series at the time of publication of this document. See http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Metadata/types.html for current thinking on the application of this element.' label 'Resource Type' syntax string Format attribute description 'The data format of the resource, used to identify the software and possibly hardware that might be needed to display or operate the resource. For the sake of interoperability, format should be selected from an enumerated list that is under development in the workshop series at the time of publication of this document.' label 'Format' syntax string schemes 'IMT' scheme Identifier attribute description 'String or number used to uniquely identify the resource. Examples for networked resources include URLs and URNs (when implemented). Other globally-unique identifiers,such as International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) or other formal names would also be candidates for this element in the case of off-line resources.' label 'Resource Identifier' syntax string schemes 'URI' scheme, 'ISBN' scheme, 'ISSN' scheme, 'DOI' scheme, 'SICI' scheme Source attribute description 'A string or number used to uniquely identify the work from which this resource was derived, if applicable. For example, a PDF version of a novel might have a source element containing an ISBN number for the physical book from which the PDF version was derived.' label 'Source' syntax string Language attribute description 'Language(s) of the intellectual content of the resource. Where practical, the content of this field should coincide with RFC 1766. See: http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt' label 'Language' syntax string schemes 'RFC1766' scheme Relation attribute description 'The relationship of this resource to other resources. The intent of this element is to provide a means to express relationships among resources that have formal relationships to others, but exist as discrete resources themselves. For example, images in a document, chapters in a book, or items in a collection. Formal specification of Relation is currently under development. Users and developers should understand that use of this element is currently considered to be experimental.' label 'Relation' syntax string schemes 'IsPartOf' type, 'HasPart' type, 'IsVersionOf' type, 'HasVersion' type, 'IsFormatOf' type, 'HasFormat' type, 'References' type, 'IsReferencedBy' type, 'IsBasedOn' type, 'IsBasisFor' type, 'Requires' type, 'IsRequiredBy' type Coverage attribute description 'The spatial and/or temporal characteristics of the resource. Formal specification of coverage is currently under development. Users and developers should understand that use of this element is currently considered to be experimental.' label 'Coverage' syntax string schemes 'PeriodName' type, 'PlaceName' type, 'X' type, 'Y' type, 'Z' type, 'T' type, 'Polygon' type, 'Line' type, '3D' type Rights attribute description 'A link to a copyright notice, to a rights-management statement, or to a service that would provide information about terms of access to the resource. Formal specification of Rights is currently under development. Users and developers should understand that use of this element is currently considered to be experimental.' label 'Rights Management' syntax string