Is Dublin Core metadata intended to be used only for digital (electronic) resources?
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative began in 1995 to develop conventions for resource discovery on the World Wide Web. The focus of discussion was electronic resources. It was clear at the outset, however, that the semantics of resource discovery should be independent of the medium of the resource, and that there are obvious advantages for using the same semantic model across media. Thus, considerable attention has been invested in making the Dublin Core sufficiently flexible to represent resources (and relationships among resources) that are both digital and exist in traditional formats as well.
