| Name of Term | coverage | |
| Term URI | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/coverage | |
| Label | Coverage | |
| Defined By | http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ | |
| Source Definition | The extent or scope of the content of the resource | |
| DC-Gov Definition | ||
| Source Comments | Coverage will typically include spatial location (a place name or geographic coordinates), temporal period (a period label, date, or date range) or jurisdiction (such as a named administrative entity). Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]) and that, where appropriate, named places or time periods be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges. | |
| DC-Gov Comments | Use Coverage with qualifier Spatial or Temporal; use of unqualified Coverage is discouraged in qualified DC. | |
| Type of term | element | |
| Refines | ||
| Refined By | Spatial, Temporal | |
| Has Encoding Scheme | See Source Comments above. | |
| Obligation | O | |
| Occurence | ||