The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
- Interdisciplinary consensus on simple element set for resource discovery
- 15 elements
- all optional
- all repeatable
- Not intended for complex resource description
- initial idea of “simple document-like object”
- simplicity of semantics, ease of use
- Provides basic “semantic interoperability”
- across domains, across language communities
- does not provide detailed cataloguing rules
- A set of 15 broad “buckets”…