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Dublin Core

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Definition

Dublin Core is a standardized metadata set for describing information resources like documents, videos, images, services, and other digital artifacts. Dublin Core is intended to provide a simple metadata model that can be adopted across a wide range of communities in an effort to enhance semantic interoperability. The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set has been formally endorsed by a number of standards bodies including ISO [5], NISO [7], and IETF [6].

Historical Background

In 1995, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) co-sponsored a workshop to address the challenge of developing a common metadata set for describing networked resources [10]. The workshop was motivated in part by the explosive growth of the Web in the early 1990s and the inherent difficulty in finding Web resources. The name “Dublin” in Dublin Core derives from the location of this first workshop in Dublin, Ohio; the term “Core” refers to the...

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  2. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Dublin Core Qualifiers, 2000.

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  6. Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF RFC 5013 – The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, 2007.

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  1. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    James Caverlee

  2. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Prasenjit Mitra

  3. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Mary Laarsgard

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  1. James Caverlee
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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Caverlee, J., Mitra, P., Laarsgard, M. (2009). Dublin Core. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_894

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