This proposal is for review by Dublin Core community. It proposes a new element refinement Copyright for the element DC:Date that is included in the proposed DC-Library Application Profile. This review period is 15 April-11 May 2002.
| Name | copyright |
| Label | Copyright |
| Definition | Date of a statement of copyright. |
| Comment | Best practice is to use if 1) the value is different from Date.Issued or Date.Created, or 2) the copyright date is known but no value is supplied for Date.Issued or Date.Created. If the copyright date is the same as date issued, use Date.Issued. |
| Examples | 1999 |
| Type of term | Element refinement |
| Term qualified | Date |
| Why needed | Copyright date is important to distinguish from Date created and Date issued because terms and conditions are dependent on the copyright date. (Deposit dates are also considered under copyright date.) |
| Proposed status | Domain-Specific |
| Related DCMI terms | Date.Issued: when the copyright date is different from date issued it is important to distinguish between them; when the same, it is not necessary to indicate copyright date. |
| Related non-DCMI terms | |
| Impact on applications | Unlikely to have previously been used, so no impact. |
| About the proposers |
DC-Libraries Working Group: Library application Profile: http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2001/10/12/library-application-profile/#Date
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