Dublin Core

A basic, domain-agnostic standard which can be easily understood and implemented, and as such is one of the best known and most widely used metadata standards.

Sponsored by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Dublin Core was published as ISO Standard 15836 in February 2009.

Used in

Documentation

Predicate namespaces

dcterms
http://purl.org/dc/terms/
dcmitype
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/
dcam
http://purl.org/dc/dcam/

Identifiers

Internal MSC ID
msc:m15

Version history

2020-01-20

version 2020-01-20 (current) – DCMI Metadata Terms

2005-06-13

version 2005-06-13 – DCMI Metadata Terms

2005-01-10

version 2005-01-10 – DCMI Metadata Terms

2004-12-20

version 2004-12-20 – DCMI Metadata Terms

2004-09-20

version 2004-09-20 – DCMI Metadata Terms

2004-06-14

version 2004-06-14 – DCMI Metadata Terms

2003-11-19

version 2003-11-19 – DCMI Metadata Terms

2003-03-04

version 2003-03-04 – DCMI Metadata Terms

2003-02-12

version 2003-02-12 – DCMI Metadata Terms

1999-07-02

version 1.1 (current) – Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

Predicate namespace:

dc
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
1998-09

version 1.0 – Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

Tools

Known users