| Name of Term | temporal | |
| Term URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/temporal | |
| Label | Temporal | |
| Defined By | http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ | |
| Source Definition | Temporal characteristics of the intellectual content of the resource. | |
| DC-Gov Definition | ||
| Source Comments | Coverage will typically include temporal period. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary. | |
| DC-Gov Comments | The value of this element may also be included in Subject if desired. Prefer standard representation of date/time values in both DC.Date and dc.coverage.temporal, although textual descriptions may also be used. | |
| Type of term | element refinement | |
| Refines | coverage | |
| Refined By | ||
| Has Encoding Scheme | DCMI Period - http://purl.org/dc/terms/Period W3C-DTF - http://purl.org/dc/terms/W3CDTF | |
| Obligation | O | |
| Occurence | ||