The Dublin Core Metadata

• Facilitate discovery of electronic resources
• http://www.purl.org/dc/ (http://dublincore.org/)
• The defined Dublin Core properties are:
• contributor
• coverage
• creator
• date
• description
• format
• identifier
• language
• publisher
• relation
• rights
• source
• subject
• title
• type
• Types values used with the type element
• collection
• dataset
• event
• image
• interactive resource
• model
• party
• physical object
• place
• service
• software
• sound
• text

• RDF example:

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
	    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
     <rdf:Description about="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/XMLJ/">
       <dc:creator>John Punin</dc:creator>
       <dc:title>Programming XML in Java</dc:title>
       <dc:description>Home Page of Programming XML in Java course</dc:description>
       <dc:date>2001-04-10</dc:date>
       <dc:format>text/html</dc:format>
       <dc:identifier>http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/XMLJ/</dc:identifier>
       <dc:subject>XML, Java, Computer Science Course</dc:subject>
       <dc:publisher>RPI Computer Science Department</dc:publisher>
       <dc:language>en</dc:language>
       <dc:type>electronic document</dc:type>
     </rdf:Description>
   </rdf:RDF>