What is the Dublin Core?
Dublin Core metadata is used to supplement existing methods for searching and indexing Web-based metadata, regardless of whether the corresponding resource is an electronic document or a “real” physical object. The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) was the first metadata standard deliverable out of the DCMI was an IETF RFC 2413. DCMES provides a semantic vocabulary for describing the “core” information properties, such as “Description” and “Creator” and “Date”. Dublin Core metadata provides card catalog-like definitions for defining the properties of objects for Web-based resource discovery systems.
