What is the Dublin Core data model?
The basic Dublin Core data model is defined by its 15 elements and the relationships defined between the resource-of-interest and whatever other resource is “in-scope” for DC. In particular, the “Relation” and “source” elements are used to indicate a connection with another resource of any type. “Creator”, “Contributor” and “Publisher” elements relate the present resource to a party who has some responsibility for it. The “Coverage” element relates the present resource to a place or to a time-period. The value recorded for each of these elements, therefore, should normally be strictly an identifier of another resource, which could have its own DCMES description. A completely abstracted DC data model must also include its two types of qualifiers. Value qualifiers (which store an identifier for the vocabulary, encoding or language of the value) and element qualifiers, which are used to further refine the semantic meaning of an element. However, many users have found it useful to add extr
The basic Dublin Core data model is defined by its 15 elements and the relationships defined between the resource-of-interest and whatever other resource is “in-scope” for DC. In particular, the “Relation” and “source” elements are used to indicate a connection with another resource of any type. “Creator”, “Contributor” and “Publisher” elements relate the present resource to a party who has some responsibility for it.
