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Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. Diana Hyle Kate Wise Marina Vildoso Anthony Vu Kristin Wright David Vermooten. What Dublin Core is not. Irish Rap Singers. A Short History. Originally conceived at the 2 nd International WWW Conference in 1994

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Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

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  1. Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Diana Hyle Kate Wise Marina Vildoso Anthony Vu Kristin Wright David Vermooten

  2. What Dublin Core is not . . . • Irish Rap Singers

  3. A Short History • Originally conceived at the 2nd International WWW Conference in 1994 • Launched in Dublin, Ohio at the OCLC/National Center for Supercomputing Applications joint workshop in 1995 (where it draws its name from) • Created for the cataloging of electronic documents

  4. The Red Tape of DC • The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) was formed from and informal group of research and practitioners. • Its basic function is to govern the standards of DC in the various international regions and promote its use. • The DCMI provides standards to facilitate the finding, sharing and management of information. • Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

  5. What is it good for anyway? • Describing digital materials such as video, sound, image, text, and web pages. • Dublin Core is most often expressed in XML (eXtensible Markup Language). • Dublin Core has the distinction of being the only widely accepted metadata format that is almost completely customizable.

  6. Dublin Hard-core • There 15 +1 basic elements (which follow) • These elements may be expanded by repeating elements with qualifiers.

  7. Dublin Hard-Core, cont’d • Title • A name given to the resource, typically the title • Subject • The topic of the resource, usually expressed as keywords, phrases, or using some kind of controlled vocabulary • Description • An “account” of the resource; can include an abstract, a table of contents, a graph, etc.

  8. Cont’d • Source • Information about “where it came from”, i.e., if a website, is it part of another website? Or did part of the electronic resource originate with a physical source (scan of a book, etc)? • Language • The language of the intellectual content of the resource – French, English, etc.

  9. Cont’d • Relation • A related source, title, or version to the resource • Coverage • The extent or scope, including time period, jurisdiction, spatial location, etc.

  10. Cont’d • Creator • The one responsible for the whole shooting match. This may be a person, organization, or service. • Publisher • The entity responsible for making the resource available. • Contributor • An entity responsible for making significant intellectual contributions to the resource, but which is secondary to the creator

  11. Cont’d • Rights • Rights held in and over a resource • Date • The date of an event in the lifecycle of the resource (such as date of creation or revision) • Resource Type • The nature or genre of a resource • Best practices controlled vocabulary

  12. Cont’d • Format • The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource • Formatting controlled vocabulary • Identifier • A string or number that uniquely identifies the resource

  13. New Kid on the Block • In 2004, a 16th element was added called “Audience” • This is the target audience of resource, or the intended user of the resource. • i.e. elementary, high school, etc.

  14. Beads, Bangles, and Lucky Charms – Qualifying the Elements • Myriad qualifiers are available to resolve abiguity • Not necessarily guaranteed to be translatable in a pure DC->____ crosswalk • Examples of clarification: • Coverage.spatial • Coverage.temporal • Coverage jurisdiction

  15. Meet Dublin’s Dad, MARC

  16. Dublin Exposed

  17. Dublin Core – Anyway you want it, that’s the way you need it • DC is customizeable with the 15 core elements functioning as a common ground minimum for translation purposes: • Anything that can translate DC can have at least a degree of understanding of a resource from pulling the common DC core elements and crosswalking them. • WordPerfect  .txt Word  .txt In both cases, you loose some formatting, but keep the core, key information.

  18. Resources • Brown, J. and Luedke, K. (n.d.) Dublin Core: a meta future. Accessed July 19, 2007 from http://studentaccess.emporia.edu/~jbrown/DublinCorePrep.ppt#257,1,DublinCore • Taylor, A. G. (2004). The Organization of Information, 2nd ed. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, Inc. • Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (2006). Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1. Accessed July 19, 2007 from http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ • Weibel, S. and Miller, E. (2000). An introduction to Dublin Core. Accessed July 19, 2007 from http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/10/25/dublincore/index.html • Hillman, D. (2005) Using Dublin Core – The elements. Accessed July 19, 2007 from http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/elements.shtml • Smiraglia, R. P. (2005) Metadata: A cataloger’s primer. Binghampton, NY: The Haworth Information Press.

  19. Questions, Comments, Concerns?

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