Using Dublin Core
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Using Dublin Core |
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2000-07-16
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| Date Created: | 1999-11-14 |
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| Is Part Of: | http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/usageguide/2000-07-16/ |
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This is a DCMI Working Draft.
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| Description of Document: | This document is intended as an entry point for users of Dublin Core™. For non-specialists, it will assist them in creating simple descriptive records for information resources (for example, electronic documents). Specialists may find the document a useful point of reference to the documentation of Dublin Core, as it changes and grows. |
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6.1 Generic Examples
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Content
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Intellectual Property
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Instantiation
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4.1. Title
Examples:
Title="A Pilot's Guide to Aircraft Insurance
Title="The Sound of Music"
Title="Green on Greens"
Title="AOPA's Tips on Buying Used Aircraft"
4.2. Author/Creator
Examples:
Creator="Duncan, Phyllis-Anne"
Creator="Melendez Santiago, Maria Luz"
Creator="Maimonides"
Creator="Park Sung Hee"
Creator="United States. Internal Revenue Service"
Creator="Elvis Presley Fan Club"
Creator="Federal Aviation Administration. Aviation Safety Program
Creator="Art Institute of Chicago"
Creator="Association of the Bar of the City of New York"
Creator="Baltimore County Medical Society"
4.3. Subject and
Keywords
Examples:
Subject="Aircraft leasing and renting"
Subject="Dogs"
Subject="Olympic skiing"
Subject="Street, Picabo"
4.4. Description
Example:
Description="Illustrated guide to airport markings and lighting signals, with particular reference to SMGCS (Surface Movement Guidance and Control System) for airports with low visibility conditions
4.5. Publisher
Examples:
Publisher="Moguls Anonymous"
Publisher="University of Miami. Dept. of Economics"
Publisher="Microsoft Corporation"
4.6. Other
Contributor
Examples:
See examples for Creator.
4. 7. Date
Date="1998-02-16"
Date="1998-02"
Date="1998"
4.8. Resource
Type
Examples:
Type="image"
Type="sound"
Type="text"
Electronic art exhibition catalog:
Type="image"
Type="text"
Multimedia educational program with interactive assignments:
Type="text"
Type="image"
Type="software"
Type="interactive"
4.9. Format
Examples:
Format="image/gif"
Title="Dublin Core™ icon"
Identifier="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core/images/dc2.gif"
Type="image"
Format="image/gif 4kB"
Subject="Saturn"
Type="image"
Format="image/gif 640 x 512 pixels"
Identifier="http://www.not.iac.es/newwww/photos/images/satnot.gif"
Title="The Bronco Buster"
Creator="Frederic Remington"
Type="physical object"
Format="bronze 22 in."
4.10. Resource
Identifier
Examples:
Identifier="http://purl.oclc.org/metadata/dublin_core/"
Identifier="0385424728" [ISBN]
Identifier="H-A-X 5690B" [publisher number]
4.11. Source
Example:
Source="RC607.A26W574 1996">
[where "RC607.A26W574 1996" is the call number of the print version of the resource, from which the present version was scanned]
4.12. Language
Examples:
Language=en
Language=fr
OR,
Language="en;fr"
OR,
Language="Primarily English, with some abstracts also in French."
Language="en-US"
4.13. Relation
Examples:
Title="Reading Turgenev"
Relation ="IsPartOf Two Lives" [collection of two novellas, one of which is "Reading Turgenev"]
[Part/Whole relations are those in which one resource is a physical or logical part of another]
Title="Candle in the Wind"
Subject="Diana, Princess of Wales"
Date="1997"
Creator="John, Elton"
Type="sound"
Description="Tribute to a dead princess"
Relation="IsVersionOf Elton John's 1976 song Candle in the Wind"
Title="Gombrich's Story of Art"
Relation="HasVersion 13th Edition, 1972"
[Version relations are those in which one resource is an historical state or edition, of another resource by the same creator]
Title="Electronic AACR2"
Relation="IsFormatOf Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition"
Title="Landsat TM dataset of Arnhemland, NT, Australia"
Relation="HasFormat arnhem.gif"
[Format transformation relations are those in which one resource has been derived from another by a reproduction or reformatting technology which is not fundamentally an interpretation but intended to be a representation.]
Title="Morgan's Ancient Society"
Relation="IsReferencedBy Engels' Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State"
Title="Nymphet Mania"
Relation="References Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita'"
[Reference relations are those in which the author of one resource cites, acknowledges, disputes or otherwise make claims about another resource.]
Title="Peter Carey's novel Oscar and Lucinda"
Relation="IsBasisFor 1998 movie Oscar and Lucinda"
Title="The movie My Fair Lady"
Relation="IsBasedOn Shaw's play Pygmalion"
[Creative relations are those in which one resource is a performance, production, derivation, adaptation or interpretation of another resource.]
Title="program.c"
Relation= Requires stdio.h"
Title="List of Internet Media Types" Relation="IsRequiredBy Dublin Core™ Format element"
[Dependency relations are those in which one resource requires another resource for its functioning, delivery, or content and cannot be used without the related resource being present.]
4.14. Coverage
Examples:
Coverage=1995-1996
Coverage=Boston, MA
OR,
Coverage="17th century"
Coverage="Upstate New York"
4.15. Rights
Management
Examples:
Rights="Access limited to members."
Rights="http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/Dienst/Repository/2.0/Terms"