The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
- Standardisation
- Europe: recognition by CEN/ISSS Workshop Agreement 13874 (2000)
- US: ratification by NISO Z39.85 (2001)
- to be submitted to ISO in 2002?
- Not a replacement for richer descriptive standards
- Can provide 15 “windows” into richer resource descriptions
- disclose rich description in simple form
- semantic cross-walks, mappings to existing data
- export rather than create