| Name of Term | description | |
| Term URI | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description | |
| Label | Description | |
| Defined By | http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ | |
| Source Definition | An account of the content of the resource. | |
| DC-Gov Definition | - | |
| Source Comments | Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, table of contents, reference to a graphical representation of content or a free-text account of the content. | |
| DC-Gov Comments | A value URI linking to external descriptions may be provided, but to facilitate keyword indexing, it is recommended that a description value string always be provided locally. | |
| Source status | recommended | |
| DC-Gov status | conforming | |
| Usage | OWMS | |
| Type of term | element | |
| Refines | ||
| Refined By | abstract, tableOfContents | |
| Has Encoding Scheme | URI - http://purl.org/dc/terms/URI | |
| Obligation | R | |
| Occurence | ||