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Metadata Movement/Dublin Core
"The Dublin Core is a 15-element metadata element set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for author-generated description of web resources, it has also attracted the attention of formal resource description communities such as museums and libraries." Metadata: data on data TITLE: the name of the work AUTHOR/CREATOR: the person[s] primarily responsible for the intellectual content PUBLISHER: the agent or agency responsible for making the work available OTHER AGENT/CONTRIBUTOR: person[s], such as editors, who have made other significant intellectual contributions to the work DATE: date of publication (Enter as: yearmoday 19980324) DESCRIPTION: contents or brief summary SUBJECT/KEYWORD: topic addressed by the work RESOURCE TYPE: genre of the work, such as novel, poem, dictionary FORMAT: data representation of the work, such as html/text, Windows executable file RESOURCE IDENTIFIER: string or number used to uniquely identify the object (URL) RELATION: relationship to other works SOURCE: works, either print or electronic, from which is work is derived, if applicable LANGUAGE: language of the intellectual content COVERAGE: spatial locations and temporal durations characteristic of the work RIGHTS MANAGEMENT: source for acquisitions/access authorization MARC FIELD DESCRIPTION DUBLIN CORE 100,110,111 Name Main Entry Author/Creator 245 Title Title 256 File Characteristics Resource Type 260 $b Publisher Publisher 260 $c Date Date 500 General Note Coverage 506 Restrictions on use Rights Management 530 Other Formats Source, Relation 538 System requirements Format 650, 651 LC Subject Headings Subject 700, 710, 711 Name Added Entry Other Contributor 856 Electronic Location Resource Identifier
ALCTS Taskforce on Meta Access Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk Monticello Project: Meta Database Record Descriptions (SOLINET) ARTICLES Lynch, Clifford. "The Dublin Core Description Metadata Program: Strategic Implications for Libraries and Networked Information Access." ARL Newsletter http://arl.cni.org/newsltr/196/dublin.html (4/13/98) |
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