This proposal is for review by Dublin Core community. It proposes a new element refinement Date.Accepted that is included in the proposed DC-Library Application Profile. This review period is 15 April-11 May 2002.
| Name | accepted |
| Label | Accepted |
| Definition | Date of acceptance of the resource (e.g.of thesis by university department, of article by journal, etc.). |
| Comment | This is recommended for theses and dissertations. |
| Examples | 1999 |
| Type of term | Element refinement |
| Term qualified | Date |
| Why needed | It may be necessary to distinguish the date accepted from the date created or issued for theses and dissertations or reviewed articles. There are numerous projects in libraries that make available theses and dissertations where this date is important to distinguish. |
| Proposed status | Domain-specific |
| Related DCMI terms | |
| Related non-DCMI terms | DC.Date.Accepted (Dissertationen Online project) |
| Impact on applications | Applications have used this element refinement locally because of the need for electronic theses and dissertation projects. (see the German project Dissertationen Online: Metadaten im Umfeld von Dissertationen.) |
| About the proposers |
DC-Libraries Working Group: Library application Profile: discussion on drafting committee list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0203&L=dc-libraries-ap&F=&S=&P=1951
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