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Dublin Core™
The original Dublin Core™ of thirteen (later fifteen) elements was first published in the
report of a workshop in 1995
. In 1998, this was formalized in the Internet Engineering Task Force standard
RFC 2413
, and
discussions began
about making it a standard of the (US) National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) published the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set as
CWA 13874
. The element set was then published as the US standard ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001 and as an international standard, ISO 15836-2003. The most recent updates of these standards are
RFC 5791 (2010)
Z39-85-2012
, and
ISO 15836-1:2017
ISO 15836 Part 2
, covering several dozen properties and classes that have been added to DCMI namespaces since 1999, was published in 2019.
Starting in 2002, DCMI grew into the role of "de facto" standards agency by maintaining its own, updated documentation for
DCMI Metadata Terms
. The
DCMI Usage Board
currently serves as the maintenance agency for ISO 15836.
In addition to these semantic specifications, DCMI working groups have developed specifications on other topics of relevance to metadata, such as encoding syntaxes, usage guidelines, and metadata models. In the rapidly evolving environment of the World Wide Web, most of these specifications have been superseded over time, sometimes after influencing subsequent work by other technical communities, notably the World Wide Web Consortium.
Current Specifications
Past Specifications
Specifications of Current Interest (3)
Title
Date Issued
Status
DCMI Metadata Terms
2020-01-20
recommendation
Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
2007-07-02
recommendation
process
Linked Data Competency Index (LDCI)
2017-06-28
Past Specifications (76)
Title
Date Issued
Status
A Cross-Domain Attribute Set
1998-10-09
past
note
A Definition of Thesauri and Classification as Indexing Tools
2000-11-28
past
note
A Syntax for Writing a List of Labelled Values in a Text String
1999-04-30
past
note
Bibliographic Citation Working Draft
1999-07-02
past
draft
Coverage Element Working Draft
1997-09-30
past
draft
Coverage Working Group - Review of RFC2413
1999-04-08
past
draft
Data Model Working Draft
1998-10-07
past
draft
Date Element Working Draft
1998-01-27
past
draft
DC-Libraries - Library Application Profile - Draft
2004-09-10
past
draft
DCMI Abstract Model
2007-06-04
past
recommendation
DCMI Box Encoding Scheme
2006-04-10
past
recommendation
DCMI DCSV
2006-04-10
past
recommendation
DCMI Government Application Profile
2001-09-17
past
draft
DCMI Period Encoding Scheme
2006-04-10
past
recommendation
DCMI Point Encoding Scheme
2006-04-10
past
recommendation
DCMI Type Vocabulary
2012-06-14
past
recommendation
DCMI Type Working Group - Review of RFC 2413
1999-03-15
past
draft
Description and Cataloging of XML-Data Schemas
1999-05-25
past
note
Domains and Ranges for DCMI Properties
2008-01-14
past
note
Dublin Core™ and z39.50
1998-02-02
past
note
Dublin Core™ Tags Applied to XML-Data Schemas for Purpose of Description and Categorization
1999-05-20
past
note
Education Working Group: Draft Proposal
2000-10-05
past
draft
Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)
2008-01-14
past
recommendation
Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using XML
2006-05-30
past
draft
Expressing Qualified Dublin Core™ in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements
2003-11-30
past
recommendation
Format Element Working Draft
1998-10-23
past
draft
Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML
2003-04-02
past
recommendation
List of Resource Types
1999-08-05
past
draft
Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages
1997-03-15
past
draft
Names in Dublin Core
1998-10-27
past
note
Notes on DCMI specifications for expressing Dublin Core™ metadata in RDF
2008-01-14
past
note
On Information Factoring in Dublin Metadata Records
1996-04-17
past
note
Plans for a distributed registry of Dublin Core™ in multiple languages.
1998-10-28
past
draft
RDF Schema Declaration of Relation Types
1999-04-29
past
note
Relation Element Working Draft
1997-12-19
past
draft
Representing Peoples Names in Dublin Core
1998-02-03
past
note
Subelement Working Draft
1998-02-11
past
draft
The Singapore Framework for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles
2008-01-14
past
note
The Use of Dublin Core™ Metadata in WebDAV
1998-10-05
past
note
Type Element Working Draft
1998-10-23
past
draft
Using Dublin Core
2005-11-07
past
note
Kernel Metadata
2014-08-14
past
note
Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description
2012-06-14
past
recommendation
DCMI Generic Namespace Policy for RDF Vocabularies
2011-05-02
past
note
Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles
2009-05-18
past
draft
Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core™ Metadata
2009-05-01
past
note
Criteria for the Review of Application Profiles
2009-03-02
past
note
A MoinMoin Wiki Syntax for Description Set Profiles
2008-10-06
past
draft
Expressing Dublin Core™ Description Sets using XML (DC-DS-XML)
2008-09-01
past
proposed
Notes on the DC-DS-XML XML Format
2008-09-01
past
recommendation
Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements
2008-08-04
past
recommendation
Notes on DCMI specifications for Dublin Core™ metadata in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements
2008-08-04
past
note
Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles
2008-03-31
past
draft
DCMI Grammatical Principles
2007-12-03
past
note
Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using the DC-Text format
2007-12-03
past
note
Dublin Core™ Collection Description Accrual Method Vocabulary
2013-06-26
past
note
Dublin Core™ Collection Description Accrual Policy Vocabulary
2013-06-26
past
note
Dublin Core™ Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary
2013-06-26
past
note
Dublin Core™ Collection Description Terms
2013-06-26
past
note
Dublin Core™ Collection Description Type (CDType) Vocabulary
2013-06-26
past
note
Dublin Core™ Collection Description Application Profile
2007-03-09
past
note
Dublin Core™ Collection Description Application Profile Summary
2007-03-09
past
note
MARC Relator terms and Dublin Core
2005-12-08
past
note
Dublin Core™ Application Profile Guidelines
2005-09-03
past
note
Element Refinement in Dublin Core™ Metadata
2005-12-07
past
note
Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core™ Metadata
2005-06-13
past
recommendation
Dublin Core™ Collection Type (CLDType) Vocabulary
2013-06-26
past
note
Dublin Core™ Collection Description Application Profile: Data Model
2004-08-06
past
note
DCMI Policy on Naming Terms
2004-04-05
past
recommendation
DCMI Usage Board Review of Application Profiles
2003-02-11
past
note
Expressing Simple Dublin Core™ in RDF/XML
2002-07-31
past
recommendation
Expressing Qualified Dublin Core™ in RDF / XML
2002-05-15
proposed
past
Education working group: draft proposal
2000-10-05
past
recommendation
DCMI Qualifiers
2000-07-11
past
recommendation
Education working group: Draft proposal
2000-04-30
past
recommendation
Dublin Core Data Model Working Group Decisions
1999-03-20
past