DC-Libraries Working Group

Proposal: Accepted qualifier for Date element

13 April 2002

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.



Proposal: Accepted refinement (element Date)
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