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Using Dublin Core

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Using Dublin Core
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2000-07-16
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This is a DCMI Working Draft.
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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Which Syntax?

3. Basic Principles of Descriptive Elements

4. The Core Elements

5. Qualifiers

6. Examples

8. Glossary

9. Background Reading and References

9. Resources for Further Information

Arts and Humanities Data Service World Wide Web Home page. (London, UK: Arts and Humanities Data Service, King's College London, Library) Available: http://ahds.ac.uk/

Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative Available: http://dublincore.org/

Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set: Reference Description Available: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information / edited by Murtha Baca. Version 2.0. (Los Angeles, CA : Getty Standards Program). Available: http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/intrometadata/index.htm

"Metadata: Mapping Between Metadata Formats". UK Office for Library and Information Networking. Available: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/

International Standard Z39.50 Information Retrieval (Z39.50): Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification" Available: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency

Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office. "Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk" http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/dccross.html.

Metadata / UKOLN. Available: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/

"Monticello Electronic Library: Dublin Core™ Element Crosswalk" http://www.oclc.org:5046/~emiller/DC/crosswalk.html.

W3C Resource Description Framework Home Page. Available: http://www.w3.org/RDF.

Background reading

Burnard, Lou et al. 1996, A Syntax for Dublin Core™
Metadata: recommendations from the Second Metadata
Workshop. [Online]. Available: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou/wip/metadata.syntax.html [Accessed: 18 August 2000].

Caplan, Priscilla L., 1997.To Hel(sinki) and back for the Dublin Core™ Public-Access Computer Systems Review [Online] v. 8 no4 ('97) p. 26-30. Available: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n4/capl8n4.html [Accessed: 18 August 2000].

Caplan, Priscilla, and Rebecca Guenther, 1996. Metadata for Internet Resources: The Dublin Core™ Metadata Elements Set and Its Mapping to USMARC. Cataloging & Classification
Quarterly. 22 (3/4).

Caplan, Priscilla L., 1996. You call it corn, we call it syntax-independent metadata for document-like objects (defining a standard for describing network-accessible information resources; report of the OCLC/NCSA metadata workshop, Dublin, Ohio) Public-Access Computer Systems Review [Online] v. 6 no4 ('95) p. 19-23. Available: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n4/capl6n4.html [Accessed: 18 August 2000].

Catledge, Lara D. and James E. Pitkow. (1995). Characterizing Browsing Strategies in the World-Wide Web. In The Third International World-Wide Web Conference: Technology, Tools and Applications. April 10-14, 1995. Darmstadt, Germany. [Online]. Available: http://www.igd.fhg.de/www/www95/proceedings/papers/80/userpatterns/UserPatterns.Paper4.formatted.html. [Accessed: 18 August 2000].

Cromwell-Kessler, Willy, 1997. Dublin Core™ Metadata in the RLG Information Landscape. D-Lib Magazine, December. [Online] Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/12cromwell-kessler.html [Accessed: 18 August 2000].

Cromwell-Kessler, Willy and Ricky Erway, 1997. Metadata Summit: Meeting Report. [Online]. Available: http://www.rlg.org/meta9707.html [Accessed: 18 August 2000].

Dempsey, Lorcan, 1996. Meta Detectors, Ariadne 3 [Online]. Available http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ariadne/issue3/metadata [Accessed: 18 August 2000].

Dempsey, Lorcan, and Stuart L. Weibel, 1996. The Warwick Metadata Workshop: A Framework for the Deployment of Resource Description. D-Lib Magazine. [Online]. July/August 1996. Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/07weibel.html. [Accessed: 18 August 2000].

Dempsey, L., 1996. ROADS to Desire: some UK and other European Metadata and Resource Discovery Projects, D-Lib
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Dempsey, Lorcan and Rachel Heery,1997, Part 1. Metadata: A survey of current resource description formats in Specification for resource description methods. [Online]. Available: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/DESIRE/overview [Accessed: 18 August 2000].

Desai, Bipin C., 1997. Supporting discovery in virtual libraries. (two proposed index metadata structures for indexing and supporting search and discovery: the Dublin Core™ Elements List and the Semantic Header) Journal of the American Society for Information Science v. 48 (Mar. '97) p. 190-204

Dublin Core™ Reference Model 1.0 (DCMI Working Draft - 22 December 1999). Editors: Renato Iannella, Eric Miller, Paul Miller. [Online]. Available: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-datamodel/files/wd-dcrm-10.htm [Accessed: 18 August 2000]

Erway, Ricky, 1997. Guidelines for extending the use
of Dublin Core™ elements to create a generic aplication
integrating all kinds of information resources. [Online]. Available: http://www.rlg.org/metawg.html. [Accessed: 18 August 2000].

Godby, C. Jean and Eric J. Miller, 1997. A Metalanguage for Describing Internet Resources. The Annual Review of OCLC
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Hakala, Juha, 1997. The 5th Dublin Core™ Metadata
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Hansen, Preben, 1997, User Guidelines for Dublin Core™
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Lange, Holley R., B. Jean Winkler, 1997. Taming the Internet: metadata, a work in progress. Advances in librarianship, v21, p. 47-72.

LeVan, Ralph, 1998. Dublin Core™ and Z39.50. OCLC Office of Research and Special Projects. [Online]. Available: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/publications/review97/levan/dublincoreandz3950-v1_1.html [Accessed: 18 August 2000]

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