| Name of Term | date | |
| Term URI | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date | |
| Label | Date | |
| Defined By | http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ | |
| Source Definition | A date associated with an event in the life cycle of the resource. | |
| DC-Gov Definition | - | |
| Source Comments | Typically, date will be associated with the creation or availability of the resource. Recommended best practice for encoding the date value is defined in a profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF] and follows the YYYY-MM-DD format. | |
| DC-Gov Comments | Avoid the use of potentially ambiguous date representations such as DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY (e.g., "04/05/05") | |
| Source status | recommended | |
| DC-Gov status | issue - date | |
| Usage | - | |
| Type of term | element | |
| Refines | ||
| Refined By | created, valid, available, issued, modified | |
| Has Encoding Scheme | ISO 8601 [W3CDTF] and follows the YYYY-MM-DD format. | |
| Obligation | R | |
| Occurence | ||