What is Dcterms?
The definition of dcterms. date is “A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource.” I think the question is whether this “event in the lifecycle of the resource” means an event discussed within the resource, or an event pertaining to the resource itself.
What is geospatial coverage?
Spatial coverage refers to a geographical area where data was collected, a place which is the subject of a collection, or a location which is the focus of an activity. Spatial coverage information enables users to limit search results to a defined geographic location or area.
What is Dcmi type?
The DCMI Type Vocabulary provides a general, cross-domain list of approved terms that may be used as values for the Resource Type element to identify the genre of a resource.
Why do we need Dublin Core?
Qualified Dublin Core increases the specificity of metadata by adding information about encoding schemes, enumerated lists of values, or other processing clues. While enabling searches to be more specific, qualifiers are also more complex and can pose challenges to interoperability.
What’s the difference between RDF and Dublin Core?
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has created some predefined properties for describing documents. RDF is metadata (data about data). RDF is used to describe information resources. The Dublin Core is a set of predefined properties for describing documents.
Which is the best description of Dublin Core?
The Dublin Core. RDF is metadata (data about data). RDF is used to describe information resources. The Dublin Core is a set of predefined properties for describing documents. The first Dublin Core properties were defined at the Metadata Workshop in Dublin, Ohio in 1995 and is currently maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Is the DCMI community responsible for Dublin Core specifications?
For more than twenty years, the DCMI community has developed and curated Dublin Core Specifications. More recently, DCMI has become recognised as a trusted steward of metadata vocabularies, concept schemes and other metadata artefacts, and has taken responsibility for other community-created specifications.
What kind of metadata is used in Dublin Core?
Metadata based on record formats. Mainstream developers have used, and continue to use, vocabularies such as Dublin Core™ in the context of relational databases and repositories, many of which are based on XML, an Extensible Markup Language for specifying the contents of metadata records as structured documents.