Dublin Core is one of the widely used metadata systems and the one which has been adopted (with minor modifications) by the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. More detail is provided in the ECAI metadata definitions section.
For an explanation of the most common elements please see Appendix A. For an authoritative document on ECAI metadata standards please visit http://www.timemap.net. All Dublin Core metadata elements begin with DC.
References
For a full explanation of Dublin Core, refer to the following documents:
Dublin Core Qualifiers / Substructure. url: http://www.loc.gov/marc/dcqualif.html Rebecca_Guenther. The paper proposes a core set of qualifiers for the Dublin Core element set.
Dublin Core Resource Subelements Minimalist Draft. url: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Metadata/minimalist.html The Dublin Core proposal for metadata contains a Resource Type element. This element is to describe the genre of the item being described. The following is a draft proposal for a standard set of genre types for use in the Dublin Core Type element. Please submit comments to the Dublin Core mailing list.
Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk. url: http://www.loc.gov/marc/dccross.html This site provides a crosswalk between the fifteen elements in the Dublin Core Element Set on the one hand and both MARC bibliographic data elements and GILS attributes on the other.
Knight / Hamilton Dublin Core Qualifiers (21/2/97). url: http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/Metadata/DC-SubElements.html To the Dublin Core proposal of fifteen basic elements, Knight / Hamilton offer differentiated values for the elements by the use of qualifiers.
