Week 4 Readings

Overview of the Dublin Core Data Model

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: international group to create agreement across disciplines for discovery-oriented descriptions of diverse resources in electronic environment

Dublin Core Element Set: supports cross-discipline resource discovery

DCMI is focused on semantic clarification of DCES and identification of common cross-domain qualifiers for better descriptions.

Basic definition for Dublin Core Data Model is the idea that there are resources, which can be anything with identity, that they want to describe

Some requirements:

It is very important for the language to be as precise as possible for clear understanding, and the unique definitions of the semantics used can be found in a schema. A namespace ties a specific word usage to a specific schema, so as not to create confusion regarding different meanings of the same word. The data model also needs to be able to recognize more refined word associations, like painter vs. contributor.