What is the Dublin Core (DC)?
The Dublin Core home page (http://purl.oclc.org/dc/index.htm) says “The Dublin Core is a metadata element set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for author-generated description of Web resources, it has attracted the attention of formal resource description communities such as museums, libraries, government agencies, and commercial organizations.” At the moment, there are many different formats used to catalog information. Dublin Core provides a very simple subset (or classification) of them. In the future, we anticipate all catalogs will support access using Dublin Core metadata. Dublin Core defines 15 core element names. For an example of Dublin Core metadata, see the end of this file. The Dublin Core is not finalized. It is still being developed. All Dublin Core implementations are therefore, to a certain extent, experimental. Please also beware that many of the “draft” Dublin Core material is itself based on other drafts–so quite a lot o
