- Digital Collections Sign In
Dublin Core Fields
dc-contributor
| Label: | Contributor | |
| Definition: | An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource. | |
| Comment: | Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Contributor should be used to indicate the entity. | |
| Example: | dc-contributor:"search terms" |
dc-coverage
| Label: | Coverage | |
| Definition: | The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant. | |
| Comment: | Spatial topic and spatial applicability may be a named place or a location specified by its geographic coordinates. Temporal topic may be a named period, date, or date range. A jurisdiction may be a named administrative entity or a geographic place to which the resource applies. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]. Where appropriate, named places or time periods can be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges. | |
| Example: | dc-coverage:"search terms" |
dc-creator
| Label: | Creator | |
| Definition: | An entity primarily responsible for making the resource. | |
| Comment: | Examples of a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Creator should be used to indicate the entity. | |
| Example: | dc-creator:"search terms" |
dc-date
| Label: | Date | |
| Definition: | A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource. | |
| Comment: | Date may be used to express temporal information at any level of granularity. Recommended best practice is to use an encoding scheme, such as the W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF]. | |
| Example: | dc-date:"search terms" |
dc-description
| Label: | Description | |
| Definition: | An account of the resource. | |
| Comment: | Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, a table of contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the resource. | |
| Example: | dc-description:"search terms" |
dc-format
| Label: | Format | |
| Definition: | The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource. | |
| Comment: | Examples of dimensions include size and duration. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the list of Internet Media Types [MIME]. | |
| Example: | dc-format:"search terms" |
dc-identifier
| Label: | 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 conforming to a formal identification system. | |
| Example: | dc-identifier:"search terms" |
dc-language
| Label: | Language | |
| Definition: | A language of the resource. | |
| Comment: | Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as RFC 4646 [RFC4646]. | |
| Example: | dc-language:"search terms" |
dc-publisher
| Label: | Publisher | |
| Definition: | An entity responsible for making the resource available. | |
| Comment: | Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Publisher should be used to indicate the entity. | |
| Example: | dc-publisher:"search terms" |
dc-relation
| Label: | Relation | |
| Definition: | A related resource. | |
| Comment: | Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system. | |
| Example: | dc-relation:"search terms" |
dc-rights
| Label: | Rights | |
| Definition: | Information about rights held in and over the resource. | |
| Comment: | Typically, rights information includes a statement about various property rights associated with the resource, including intellectual property rights. | |
| Example: | dc-rights:"search terms" |
dc-source
| Label: | Source | |
| Definition: | A related resource from which the described resource is derived. | |
| Comment: | The described resource may be derived from the related resource in whole or in part. Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system. | |
| Example: | dc-source:"search terms" |
dc-subject
| Label: | Subject | |
| Definition: | The topic of the resource. | |
| Comment: | Typically, the subject will be represented using keywords, key phrases, or classification codes. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary. To describe the spatial or temporal topic of the resource, use the Coverage element. | |
| Example: | dc-subject:"search terms" |
dc-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. | |
| Example: | dc-title:"search terms" |
dc-type
| Label: | Type | |
| Definition: | The nature or genre of the resource. | |
| Comment: | Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the DCMI Type Vocabulary [DCMITYPE]. To describe the file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource, use the Format element. | |
| Example: | dc-type:"search terms" |