Title: DCMI Elements and Qualifiers Maintainer: Thomas Baker, Usage Board Chair Identifier: http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/2002/04/29/elements-qualifiers/ Replaces: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-qualifiers/ Replaces: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ Latest version: http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/elements-qualifiers/ Installed as: http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/elements-qualifiers/index.shtml Status of document: After a final review by the Usage Board, this draft document will replace all other documents as the definitive expression of DCMI element and qualifier definitions. Its status will be that of a DCMI Recommendation. Date Last Modified: 2002-04-29 (Note: must agree with date-stamp in Identifier.) Description: This document is a consolidated and updated representation of all elements and qualifiers recommended by DCMI as of the Date Last Modified. Contents Introduction I. Elements of the 1999 Dublin Core (identified by the namespace URI http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/) II. Other Elements III. Element Refinements IV. Encoding Schemes References Introduction This document is a consolidated representation of metadata terms recommended by DCMI as of the Date Last Modified in the document header information. Specifically, this includes all of the terms defined in the Dublin Core Element Set version 1.1 of 2 July 1999 [DCMES], the Dublin Core Qualifiers of 11 July 2000 [DCQ], and three additional terms approved on 21 May 2001 by the Usage Board [DECISION2001.01] -- in short, all of the terms recommended by DCMI to date except for those of the DCMI Type Vocabulary, which is described in a separate document [DCT1]. This consolidated document replaces the earlier documents as the authoritative representation of DCMI metadata terms. As of April 2002 it is expected that this document will eventually be replaced by a terminological database, or Vocabulary Management System (VMS), which will become the definitive repository of the definitions and related versioning information for DCMI metadata terms (see [DC-REGISTRY]). After extensive discussions on DCMI mailing lists and in accordance with a decision of the Usage Board [DECISION2001.02], this document describes metadata terms with the attributes used in the Dublin Core Qualifiers recommendation of July 2000 {DCQ] rather than those used for the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, version 1.1, of July 1999 [DCMES], which were based more closely on the ISO/IEC 11179 standard [ISO11179]. The DCMI terms represented here are described with the following attributes, of which URI of Term, Name, Label, Definition, Term Type, and Decision are obligatory: Name: The unique token assigned to the term. URI: The unique identifier of a term (see [TERMS]). Label: The human-readable label assigned to the term. Definition: A statement that represents the concept and essential nature of the term. Comment: Additional information about the term or its application. See Also: A link to more information about the term, such as supporting documentation for the original proposal to the Usage Board. Term Type: Element, Element Refinement, or Encoding Scheme (see [PRINCIPLES]). Terms Qualified: If a "qualifier" (Element Refinement or Encoding Scheme), name(s) of the Element(s) qualified. Status: Status assigned to term by Usage Board (see [TERMS] and [PROCESS]). Decision: Number of Usage Board decision (see [DECISIONS]). VMS note: Additional information of relevance to the planned Vocabulary Management System. References for Introduction [DC-REGISTRY] http://dublincore.org/groups/registry/ [DCMES] http://dublincore.org/documents/1999/07/02/dces/ [DCT1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/ [DCQ] http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/11/dcmes-qualifiers/ [DECISIONS] http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml [DECISION2001.01] http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2001.01 [DECISION2001.02] http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2001.02 [ISO11179] ftp://sdct-sunsrv1.ncsl.nist.gov/x3l8/11179/ [PRINCIPLES] http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/mission/ [PROCESS] http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/ [TERMS] http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Elements of the 1999 Dublin Core --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: title URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title Label: Title Definition: A name given to the resource. Comment: Typically, a Title will be a name by which the resource is formally known. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: creator URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator Label: Creator Definition: An entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource. Comment: Examples of a Creator include a person, an organisation, or a service. Typically, the name of a Creator should be used to indicate the entity. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: subject URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/subject Label: Subject and Keywords Definition: The topic of the content of the resource. Comment: Typically, a Subject will be expressed as keywords, key phrases or classification codes that describe a topic of the resource. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary or formal classification scheme. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: description URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description Label: Description Definition: An account of the content of the resource. Comment: Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, table of contents, reference to a graphical representation of content or a free-text account of the content. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: publisher URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/publisher Label: Publisher Definition: An entity responsible for making the resource available Comment: Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organisation, or a service. Typically, the name of a Publisher should be used to indicate the entity. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: contributor URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor Label: Contributor Definition: An entity responsible for making contributions to the content of the resource. Comment: Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organisation, or a service. Typically, the name of a Contributor should be used to indicate the entity. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: date URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date Label: Date Definition: A date associated with an event in the life cycle of the resource. Comment: Typically, Date will be associated with the creation or availability of the resource. Recommended best practice for encoding the date value is defined in a profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF] and follows the YYYY-MM-DD format. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: type URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/type Label: Resource Type Definition: The nature or genre of the content of the resource. Comment: Type includes terms describing general categories, functions, genres, or aggregation levels for content. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the working draft list of Dublin Core Types [DCT1]). To describe the physical or digital manifestation of the resource, use the FORMAT element. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: format URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/format Label: Format Definition: The physical or digital manifestation of the resource. Comment: Typically, Format may include the media-type or dimensions of the resource. Format may be used to determine the software, hardware or other equipment needed to display or operate the resource. Examples of dimensions include size and duration. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the list of Internet Media Types [MIME] defining computer media formats). Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: identifier URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier Label: Resource Identifier Definition: An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context. Comment: Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system. Example formal identification systems include the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) (including the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)), the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and the International Standard Book Number (ISBN). Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: source URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/source Label: Source Definition: A reference to a resource from which the present resource is derived. Comment: The present resource may be derived from the Source resource in whole or in part. Recommended best practice is to reference the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: language URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/language Label: Language Definition: A language of the intellectual content of the resource. Comment: Recommended best practice is to use RFC 3066 [RFC3066], which, in conjunction with ISO 639 [ISO639], defines two- and three-letter primary language tags with optional subtags. Examples include "en" or "eng" for English, "akk" for Akkadian, and "en-GB" for English used in the United Kingdom. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2001.04 Name: relation URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/relation Label: Relation Definition: A reference to a related resource. Comment: Recommended best practice is to reference the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: coverage URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/coverage Label: Coverage Definition: The extent or scope of the content of the resource. Comment: Coverage will typically include spatial location (a place name or geographic coordinates), temporal period (a period label, date, or date range) or jurisdiction (such as a named administrative entity). Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]) and that, where appropriate, named places or time periods be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 Name: rights URI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights Label: Rights Management Definition: Information about rights held in and over the resource. Comment: Typically, a Rights element will contain a rights management statement for the resource, or reference a service providing such information. Rights information often encompasses Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Copyright, and various Property Rights. If the Rights element is absent, no assumptions can be made about the status of these and other rights with respect to the resource. Term Type: Element Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#1999.01 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Other Elements --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: audience URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/audience Label: Audience Definition: A class of entity for whom the resource is intended or useful. Comment: A class of entity may be determined by the creator or the publisher or by a third party. Term Type: Element Status: Domain-Specific Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2001.01 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Element Refinements --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: alternative URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/alternative Label: Alternative Definition: Any form of the title used as a substitute or alternative to the formal title of the resource. Comment: This qualifier can include Title abbreviations as well as translations. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Title Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: tableOfContents URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents Label: Table Of Contents Definition: A list of subunits of the content of the resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Description Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: abstract URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/abstract Label: Abstract Definition: A summary of the content of the resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Description Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: created URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/created Label: Created Definition: Date of creation of the resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Date Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: valid URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/valid Label: Valid Definition: Date (often a range) of validity of a resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Date Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: available URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/available Label: Available Definition: Date (often a range) that the resource will become or did become available. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Date Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: issued URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/issued Label: Issued Definition: Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Date Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: modified URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/modified Label: Modified Definition: Date on which the resource was changed. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Date Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: extent URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/extent Label: Extent Definition: The size or duration of the resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Format Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: medium URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/medium Label: Medium Definition: The material or physical carrier of the resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Format Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: isVersionOf URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/isVersionOf Label: Is Version Of Definition: The described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation of the referenced resource. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: hasVersion URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion Label: Has Version Definition: The described resource has a version, edition, or adaptation, namely, the referenced resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: isReplacedBy URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/isReplacedBy Label: Is Replaced By Definition: The described resource is supplanted, displaced, or superceded by the referenced resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: replaces URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/replaces Label: Replaces Definition: The described resource supplants, displaces, or supersedes the referenced resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: isRequiredBy URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/isRequiredBy Label: Is Required By Definition: The described resource is required by the referenced resource, either physically or logically. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: requires URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/requires Label: Requires Definition: The described resource requires the referenced resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence of content. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: isPartOf URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf Label: Is Part Of Definition: The described resource is a physical or logical part of the referenced resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: hasPart URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasPart Label: Has Part Definition: The described resource includes the referenced resource either physically or logically. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: isReferencedBy URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/isReferencedBy Label: Is Referenced By Definition: The described resource is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the referenced resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: references URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/references Label: References Definition: The described resource references, cites, or otherwise points to the referenced resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: isFormatOf URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/isFormatOf Label: Is Format Of Definition: The described resource is the same intellectual content of the referenced resource, but presented in another format. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: hasFormat URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasFormat Label: Has Format Definition: The described resource pre-existed the referenced resource, which is essentially the same intellectual content presented in another format. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: conformsTo URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/conformsTo Label: ConformsTo Definition: A reference to an established standard to which the resource conforms. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Relation Status: Domain-Specific Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2001.01 Name: spatial URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/spatial Label: Spatial Definition: Spatial characteristics of the intellectual content of the resoure. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Coverage Name: temporal URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/temporal Label: Temporal Definition: Temporal characteristics of the intellectual content of the resource. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Coverage Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: mediator URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/mediator Label: Mediator Definition: A class of entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. Comment: The audience for a resource in the education/training domain are of two basic classes: (1) an ultimate beneficiary of the resource (usually a student or trainee), and (2) frequently, an entity that mediates access to the resource (usually a teacher or trainer). The mediator element refinement represents the second of these two classes. Term Type: Element Refinement Terms Qlfd: Audience Status: Domain-Specific Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2001.01 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Encoding Schemes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: LCSH URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/LCSH Label: LCSH Definition: Library of Congress Subject Headings Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Subject Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: MESH URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/MESH Label: MeSH Definition: Medical Subject Headings See also: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Subject Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: DDC URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/DDC Label: DDC Definition: Dewey Decimal Classification See also: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/index.htm Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Subject Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: LCC URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/LCC Label: LCC Definition: Library of Congress Classification See also: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Subject Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: UDC URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/UDC Label: UDC Definition: Universal Decimal Classification See also: http://www.udcc.org/ Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Subject Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: Period URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/Period Label: DCMI Period Definition: A specification of the limits of a time interval. See also: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-period/ Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Date Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: W3CDTF URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/W3CDTF Label: W3C-DTF Definition: W3C Encoding rules for dates and times - a profile based on ISO 8601 See also: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Date Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: DCMIType URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/DCMIType Label: DCMI Type Vocabulary Definition: A list of types used to categorize the nature or genre of the content of the resource. See also: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/ Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Type Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: IMT URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/IMT Label: IMT Definition: The Internet media type of the resource. See also: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types Term Type: Encoding Schemes Terms Qlfd: Format Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: URI URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/URI Label: URI Definition: A URI Uniform Resource Identifier See also: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Identifier Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: ISO639-2 URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/ISO639-2 Label: ISO 639-2 Definition: ISO 639-2: Codes for the representation of names of languages. See also: http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Language Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: RFC1766 URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/RFC1766 Label: RFC 1766 Definition: Internet RFC 1766 'Tags for the identification of Language' specifies a two letter code taken from ISO 639, followed optionally by a two letter country code taken from ISO 3166. See Also: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Language Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: URI URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/URI Label: URI Definition: A URI Uniform Resource Identifier See also: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Relation Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: URI URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/URI Label: URI Definition: A URI Uniform Resource Identifier See also: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Source Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2001.03 Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: Point URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/Point Label: DCMI Point Definition: The DCMI Point identifies a point in space using its geographic coordinates. See also: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-point/ Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Coverage/Spatial Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: ISO3166 URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/ISO3166 Label: ISO 3166 Definition: ISO 3166 Codes for the representation of names of countries See also: http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/index.html Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Coverage/Spatial Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: Box URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/Box Label: DCMI Box Definition: The DCMI Box identifies a region of space using its geographic limits. See also: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-box/ Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Coverage/Spatial Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: TGN URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/TGN Label: TGN Definition: The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names See also: http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser/ Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Coverage/Spatial Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: Period URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/Period Label: DCMI Period Definition: A specification of the limits of a time interval. See also: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-period/ Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Coverage/Temporal Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 Name: W3CDTF URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/W3CDTF Label: W3C-DTF Definition: W3C Encoding rules for dates and times - a profile based on ISO 8601 See also: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime Term Type: Encoding Scheme Terms Qlfd: Coverage/Temporal Decision: http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/index.shtml#2000.01 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- References --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [DCT1] Type Vocabulary. [ISO639] ISO 639 - Codes for the representation of names of languages. [ISO3166] ISO 3166 - Codes for the representation of names of countries. [MIME] Internet Media Types. [RFC3066] RFC 3066 - Tags for the identification of Languages. [TGN] Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. [W3CDTF] Date and Time Formats, W3C Note.