Dublin Core™ Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary

Creator: Dublin Core™ Collection Description Working Group
Date Issued: 2006-08-24
Identifier: http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/collection-description/frequency/2006-08-24/
Replaces: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/collection-DCCDAccrualPeriodicity/2004-08-18/
Is Replaced By: Not applicable
Latest Version: http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/collection-description/frequency/
Description of Document: This document describes the frequency vocabulary used by the application profile for collection-level description developed by the Dublin Core™ Collection Description Working Group.

Introduction

The Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary provides a set of terms that can be used as values of the dcterms:accrualPeriodicity property in descriptions of collections. It has been developed in association with the Dublin Core™ Collection Description Application Profile (DC CD AP) but this vocabulary is independent of that profile and the terms defined here may be referenced in other metadata descriptions and used as the values of other properties.

The Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary is based on the set of codes used for publication frequency in the MARC 21 Concise Format for Holdings Data.

In statements in DC metadata descriptions, the URIs of the individual terms may be used as value URIs and/or the labels of the terms may be used as value strings. The vocabulary encoding scheme URI is http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency.

A representation of the terms in this vocabulary is also available as an RDF/XML document.

Note

All references to properties, classes, vocabulary encoding schemes and syntax encoding schemes in DC metadata descriptions are made using URIs. In this document, Qualified Names of the form prefix ":" local-part are used as abbreviations for URIs which identify metadata terms. Prefixes are assumed to be associated with Namespace Names (URIs) as follows, and the corresponding URI for the term is constructed by concatenating the Namespace Name and the local-part:

  • dc: http:/purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
  • dcterms: http://purl.org/dc/terms/
  • dcmitype: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/
  • cld: http://purl.org/cld/terms/
  • freq: http://purl.org/cld/freq/

Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary [cld:Frequency]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
Qualified Name cld:Frequency
Defined By Collection Description Terms Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/terms/
Type of Term Vocabulary Encoding Scheme
Label Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
Definition

A set of frequencies with which a repeatable event occurs.

Comments
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Vocabulary Terms

  • Triennial [freq:triennial]
  • Biennial [freq:biennial]
  • Annual [freq:annual]
  • Semiannual [freq:semiannual]
  • Three times a year [freq:threeTimesAYear]
  • Quarterly [freq:quarterly]
  • Bimonthly [freq:bimonthly]
  • Monthly [freq:monthly]
  • Semimonthly [freq:semimonthly]
  • Biweekly [freq:biweekly]
  • Three times a month [freq:threeTimesAMonth]
  • Weekly [freq:weekly]
  • Semiweekly [freq:semiweekly]
  • Three times a week [freq:threeTimesAWeek]
  • Daily [freq:daily]
  • Continuous [freq:continuous]
  • Irregular [freq:irregular]

Triennial [freq:triennial]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/triennial
Qualified Name freq:triennial
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Triennial
Definition

The event occurs every three years.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Biennial [freq:biennial]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/biennial
Qualified Name freq:biennial
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Biennial
Definition

The event occurs every two years.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Annual [freq:annual]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/annual
Qualified Name freq:annual
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Annual
Definition

The event occurs once a year.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Semiannual [freq:semiannual]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/semiannual
Qualified Name freq:semiannual
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Semiannual
Definition

The event occurs twice a year.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Three times a year [freq:threeTimesAYear]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/threeTimesAYear
Qualified Name freq:threeTimesAYear
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Three times a year
Definition

The event occurs three times a year.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Quarterly [freq:quarterly]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/quarterly
Qualified Name freq:quarterly
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Quarterly
Definition

The event occurs every three months.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Bimonthly [freq:bimonthly]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/bimonthly
Qualified Name freq:bimonthly
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Bimonthly
Definition

The event occurs every two months.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Monthly [freq:monthly]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/monthly
Qualified Name freq:monthly
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Monthly
Definition

The event occurs once a month.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Semimonthly [freq:semimonthly]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/semimonthly
Qualified Name freq:semimonthly
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Semimonthly
Definition

The event occurs twice a month.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Biweekly [freq:biweekly]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/biweekly
Qualified Name freq:biweekly
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Biweekly
Definition

The event occurs every two weeks.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Three times a month [freq:threeTimesAMonth]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/threeTimesAMonth
Qualified Name freq:threeTimesAMonth
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Three times a month
Definition

The event occurs three times a month.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Weekly [freq:weekly]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/weekly
Qualified Name freq:weekly
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Weekly
Definition

The event occurs once a week.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Semiweekly [freq:semiweekly]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/semiweekly
Qualified Name freq:semiweekly
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Semiweekly
Definition

The event occurs twice a week.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Three times a week [freq:threeTimesAWeek]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/threeTimesAWeek
Qualified Name freq:threeTimesAWeek
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Three times a week
Definition

The event occurs three times a week.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Daily [freq:daily]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/daily
Qualified Name freq:daily
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Daily
Definition

The event occurs once a day.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Continuous [freq:continuous]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/continuous
Qualified Name freq:continuous
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Continuous
Definition

The event repeats without interruption.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Irregular [freq:irregular]

Identifier http://purl.org/cld/freq/completelyIrregular
Qualified Name freq:irregular
Defined By Collection Description Frequency Namespace
http://purl.org/cld/freq/
Type of Term Vocabulary Term
Label Irregular
Definition

The event occurs at uneven intervals.

Comments
Is Member Of Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
http://purl.org/cld/terms/Frequency
See Also MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Caption and Pattern Fields (853-855)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdcapt.html

Changes made in this version

  • Provide URIs for individual terms within VES
  • Expand definitions of individual terms within VES