The Dublin Core Agent Core Vocabulary The Dublin Core Agent Core Vocabulary The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative The Dublin Core metadata vocabulary is a simple vocabulary intended to facilitate the discovery and description of agents. English 2000-03-13 Agent An agent Person An individual human. Organization A group that that acts as an agent. Typical examples of organizations are associations, institutions, business firms, nonprofit enterprises, governments, government agencies, cultural groups, and religious bodies. Event A non-persistent and time-based activity that acts as an agent. Typical examples of events are conferences, conventions, meetings, exhibitions, expositions ,festivals, athletic contests, workshops, and expeditions. Name change and relation defined due to overlap with Event declaration from dc:type work... not sure how best to handle this... Object A device that acts as an agent. Typical examples of objects are mechanical instruments, electronic services, non-human entities, and appliances. Agent Name The formal or common name of the Agent Typically, this would be the name which is used to refer to the Agent. The Family Name First Encoding Value Qualifier may also be used to express the order of the components of the Name. Vocabularies of Names may also be used as values for this qualifier. Name Encoding Schemes A set of name encoding schemes and/or formats. DCMI Family Name First The DCMI encoding rule in which the family name of the Agent appears first, followed by a comma, then all other names. Agent Affiliation The organization with which the named Agent was associated when involved with the resource Agent Identifier An unambiguous reference to the named Agent within a given context. Recommended best practice is to identify the named Agent by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system. The recommended Encoding Value Qualifier is the Uniform Resource Identifier. In some cases, the Agent Identifier may provide or lead to more information about the named Agent. This seems very wrong to me... again this seems like a syntactic mechansim for uniqly identifying some resource... this requirement is neccessary for all resource description and should be common (e.g. RDF) Agent Type The type of the entity for the named Agent. The values are defined in the DC Agent Type vocabulary (referred to as DCAT1) which is maintained by the DCMI. Other terms may be used but are not recommended.