The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. It defines conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easy to find. Dublin Core is widely used to describe digital materials such as video, sound, image, text, and composite media like web pages. Implementations of Dublin Core typically make use of XML and are Resource Description Framework based. Dublin Core is defined by IS...
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The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. It defines conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easy to find. Dublin Core is widely used to describe digital materials such as video, sound, image, text, and composite media like web pages. Implementations of Dublin Core typically make use of XML and are Resource Description Framework based. Dublin Core is defined by ISO in ISO Standard 15836, and NISO Standard Z39.85-2007.
The "Dublin" in the name refers to Dublin, Ohio, U.S., where the work originated from an invitational workshop (the "OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop") hosted in 1995 by Online Computer Library Center, a library consortium that is based there. (NCSA is the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.) The "Core" refers to the fact that the metadata element set is a basic but expandable "core" list.
The semantics of Dublin Core were established and are maintained by an international, cross...
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