Dublin Core Elements
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The name given to the item by the creator or the publisher; an identifying phrase or name. |
Omit unnecessary articles at the beginning of the title, e.g. "a", "an", "the" |
View of Mount Mansfield Brass candlestick Print of the Declaration of Independence |
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The name of the creator (artist, photographer, author) of the original item. |
Enter the last name, first name, and birth and death dates (if known). Enter names of organizations as a phrase. |
Heyde, Charles Louis, 1820-1892 Bennington Pottery Company |
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context |
Identify the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system |
URI URL ISBN |
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An account of the content of the resource |
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. |
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Creation date(s) or range of dates for the original resource from which the digital object was derived or created. |
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2000-06-15 1867 (for a painting done in 1867) |
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The date of the creation of the digital version of the item. |
Use the same format as DATE.ORIGINAL. |
2002-6-5 |
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Technical information about the hardware, software and processes used to create a digital resource. |
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file size, quality, operating system, creation hardware & software |
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What the content of the resource is about or what it is, expressed by headings, keywords, phrases, or names; or terms for significantly associated people, places, and events, etc. |
It is strongly recommended that subject words and phrases come from established thesauri or discipline-related word lists. See Western States Dublin Core Input Guidelines for more information |
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Entity that made the resource available. For digital objects, publisher is the entity that created the digital resource. Publishers can be a corporate body, publishing house, museum, historical society, university, a project, a repository, etc. |
University of Vermont. Library. Special Collections Dept. University of Vermont. Robert Hull Fleming Museum University of Vermont. School of Natural Resources |
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The content of this element is intended to be a rights management or usage statement or a URL that links to a rights management statement. A rights management statement may contain information concerning accessibility, reproduction of images, copyright holder, restrictions, securing permissions for use of text or images, etc. |
Enter either a textual statement or a URL pointing to a use and access rights statement for digital resources on the Internet. This statement can be a general copyright statement for the institution, for the whole collection, or a specific statement for each resource. The statement may be general, providing contact information, or specific, including the name of the copyright holder. Make sure that the rights statement corresponds to the digital resource; for example, link to a copyright statement for the digital resource instead of the original resource. |
http://www.college.edu/copyright.html [URL for a complete copyright statement] U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Please contact XXX for permission to use the digital image. Copyright to this resource is held by XXX and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed in any format without written permission of XXX. |
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Person(s) or organization(s) who made significant intellectual contributions to the resource but whose contribution is secondary to those already specified in the Creator element. |
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editor, transcriber, illustrator |
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The language(s) of the intellectual content of the resource. |
Visual images do not usually have a language unless there is significant text in a caption or in the image itself. |
en (English), fr (French) |
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The extent or scope of the content of the resource. Typically used for geographic or spatial information, or time period. |
Recommend using controlled vocabulary, e.g., Getty Thesaurus of Geo. Names. |
place names, geographic coordinates, time period, e.g., Baroque |
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The nature or genre of the content of the resource (differs from Format) Type includes terms describing: -General categories, Functions, Genres, Or aggregation levels for content. |
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. |
Type = “text” Type=”image” |
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A reference to a resource from which the present resource is derived. |
Reference the resource by means of a string or number conforming a formal identification system (URI, ISBN, etc.), if applicable. *The present resource may be derived from the Source resource in whole or in part. **Consider the Relation element first, use the Source element for information that does not fit easily into Relation |
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A reference to a related resource. |
Reference the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system. *Prescribed list of modifiers are used in this element. **Has many specific qualifiers such as IsPartOf, HasFormat, Replaces, etc. |
Title = “Clueless” Relation = “isVersionOf Emma by Jane Austen” Title = “Fellowship of the Ring” Relation = “isPartOf Lord of the Rings” |
Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices
<http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/metadata/documents/WSDCMBP_v1-2_2003-01-20.pdf>
[RFC2413] Dublin Core Metadata
for Resource Discovery. Internet RFC 2413.
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2413.txt>
[DCT1] DCMI Type Vocabulary. DCMI
Recommendation, 11 July 2000.
<http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/>
[ISO639] ISO 639-2 - Codes for
the
representation of names of languages. Alpha-3 code (ISO 639-2:1998)
<http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html>
[ISO3166] ISO 3166 - Codes for
the representation of names of countries.
<http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/>
[MIME] Internet Media Types.
<http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types>
[RFC3066] Tags for the
Identification of Languages, Internet RFC 3066.
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt>
[RFC2396] Uniform Resource
Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax, Internet RFC 2396.
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>
[TGN] Getty Thesaurus of Geographic
Names.
<http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html>
[W3CDTF] Date and Time Formats,
W3C
Note.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime>