The Dublin Core Education Vocabulary The Dublin Core Education Vocabulary The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative The Dublin Core Education metadata vocabulary is a simple vocabulary intended to facilitate discovery and management of educational resources. English 2000-08-22 Audience A category of user for whom the resource is intended. Comment: Frequently, creators and publishers of resources in education and training explicitly state the category of user for whom the resource is intended. In like fashion, end-users in the education/training domain frequently search using audience characteristics as search terms. Mediator An entity that mediates access to the resource. Comment: The audience for a resource in the education/training domain are of two basic classes: (1) an utimate beneficiary of the resource (usually a student or trainee), and (2) frequently, an entity that mediates access to the resource (usually a teacher or trainor). The Mediator element refinement represents the second of these two classes. Standards A reference to an established education or training standard to which the resource is associated. Identifier Where available, an identifier that serves to uniquely identify the standard being associated.A reference to an established education or training. Version Information identifying the version of the standard being referenced (e.g., a year of publication, a version number, etc.).