Metadata for general purposes

About DCMI

**Watch the video DCMI Today (2021) and study the three stages of Metadata from Metadata 1.0 to Metadata 3.0

Dublin Core Specifications

https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/

DC creation tool to be used:

Online:

• Template for creating a simple DC record
  https://metadataetc.org/dctemplate.html
  • The finished record can be viewed in various formats such as HTML, XML, RDF/XML, and Turtle.

• [Used before 2014] DC-Dot's Dublin Core metadata editor http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/

Offline: Download DC template (PDF file)

If you use an XML editor: download the XML Schemas
*https://www.dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/

• dc (15 elements) xsd:
  http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/dc.xsd
• dcterms in xsd:
  http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/dcterms.xsd
  
  

Best Practices and guidelines:

• *User Guide (archive at github)
  • **Creating Metadata
    
  • **Publishing Metadata
     
• Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles
  • https://dublincore.org/documents/profile-guidelines/
     
• *Using Dublin Core - The Elements (till 2005)
  
  • https://www.dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/
     
• **Syntax guidelines
  • https://www.dublincore.org/specification_type/syntax/
    
    

Exercises:

1.1 Create a DC record for a single-file journal article:

• Gregory Crane. Georeferencing in Historical Collections. D-Lib Magazine, May 2004, Volume 10 Number 5. URL:http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may04/crane/05crane.html

1.2 *Create a DC record for a multi-file online tutorial:

• GETTING STARTED WITH KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS
  URL: http://knowledgegraph.info/
  

1.3 Create collection level DC records for:

1. D-Lib Magazine.
   Note: Please treat the whole magazine, not a particular issue.
   URLs: https://www.dlib.org/ and https://www.dlib.org/about.html
    
2. National Geographic Xpeditions website https://education.nationalgeographic.org/
    
3. Explore Mars Now
   https://mars.nasa.gov/explore/mars-now/

1.4 Create a DC record for a dynamic content Web site that provides dynamic information on the screen based on the search or browse queries:

• *National Geographic--Teaching Resources -- Lessons
  https://www.nationalgeographic.org/lesson/
   
• *National Geographic--Teaching Resources -- Maps https://www.nationalgeographic.org/map/
  

1.5 Create a DC record for a Web page that contains multiple contributors:

• Find any publication which has multiple contributors
  https://www.nctm.org/classroomresources/

Standard vocabularies and rules for appropriate values that will be used in the records of this exercise.

• DCMI Type Vocabulary
  *https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/#section-7
   
• [MIME] Internet Media Types
  http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
   
• ISO 639. Code for the representation of the names of languages.
  • 639-1: Two-character language codes (136 languages only.)
    http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639a.html
  • 639-2: Alpha-3 code (including the languages covered in 639-1 and many others)
    http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
     
• ISO 3166 - Codes for the representation of names of countries.
  http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/country3166.html

DC documents

• XML schemas
  https://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/
  
  
• RDF representations: RDFa,  RDF/XML and Turtle
  https://dublincore.org/schemas/rdfs/
  
  

• DCMI Namespace Policy [DCMI Recommendation]. This document describes how metadata terms are assigned URIs by DCMI and the policies governing changes to the documented meanings associated with those URIs.
   
• The Dublin Core Metadata Registry -- Description only
   
• Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Version 1.1 [DCMES, dc].
  • http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
• -- This document excerpts from DCMI Metadata Terms, the 15 elements of the classic "Dublin Core", which has been standardized as:
• ISO Standard 15836:2009
  **2017: https://www.iso.org/standard/71339.html **[click on Read Example]
  **This standard was last reviewed and confirmed in 2022.
  
• *ANSI/NISO Standard Z39.85-2012
   
• DCMI Metadata Terms [dcterms or dct]
  • http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
  • **https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/
     
• DCMI Abstract Model
  • **https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/abstract-model/