Education Application Profile

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The wording of this initial draft relies heavily on the wording of the DC:Libraries Application Profile. The DC-Education Working Group is indebted to the excellent (and pioneering) work of the DC-Libraries Working Group and trust that its member consider our substantial copying as the highest form of flattery.

Creator:	DCMI-Education Working Group
Contributors:	Stuart A. Sutton, University of Washington, USA Diane Hillmann, National Science Digital Library (NSDL), USA
Date Issued:	6/20/2005
Identifier:	http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/dcmi/ed/04-05/DC-Education_AP_06-20-05.html
Replaces:	http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/dcmi/ed/04-05/DC-Education_AP_11-30-04.html
Is Replaced By:	—
Latest Version:	/http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/dcmi/ed/04-05/DC-Education_AP_06-20-05.html
Status of Document:	DCMI Working Draft.
Description of Document:	This document proposes an application profile that clarifies the use of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set in education and training-related applications and projects. It was originally prepared by the DCMI-Education Application Profile Drafting Committee, a subset of the DCMI-Education Working Group. This proposal has been formatted in conformance with the Dublin Core Application Profile Guidelines produced by the CEN MMI-DC Workshop.

DC-Education Application Profile

I. Introduction

The concept of application profiles (see Application profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas) has emerged within the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative as a way to declare which elements from which namespaces are used in a particular application or project. Application profiles are defined as schemas which consist of data elements drawn from one or more namespaces, combined together by implementors, and optimized for a particular local application.

The DCMI-Education Working Group has explored various uses of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set in education and training-related applications and has envisioned the following possible uses of this application profile:

to serve as an interchange format between various systems using different metadata standards/formats;
to use for harvesting metadata from data sources within and outside of the education and training domain; and
to support simple creation of education and training domain records for resources within a variety of systems.

An education application profile will be a specification that defines the following:

required elements;
permitted Dublin Core elements;
permitted Dublin Core element refinements;
permitted schemes and values (e.g. use of a specific controlled vocabulary or encoding scheme);
education and training domain elements used from other namespaces; and
refinement of standard definitions.

This document proposes an application profile that clarifies the use of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set in education and training-related applications and projects. It was originally prepared by the DCMI-Education Application Profile Drafting Committee, a subset of the DCMI-Education Working Group.

2. Namespaces and Format of entries

The DC-Education Application Profile uses terms from the following namespaces:

DCMI Metadata Terms [http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/]
IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) [To be determined] NOTE: Work continues on the RDF encoding of the IEEE LOM. Once expressed as RDF properties in a declared namespace, LOM elements will be considered for inclusion in the Application Profile.
The Usage Board has decided that any encoding scheme that has a URI defined in a non-DCMI namespace may be used in an application profile. Those considered so far for this application profile are indicated below.

Format of entries:

This Application Profile is presented following the " CEN CWA 14855: Dublin Core Application Profiles Guidelines" produced by the CEN MMI-DC Workshop. On completion of the application profile according to CWA 14855 and approval of the Usage Board, the Working Group intends to declare a Resource Description Framework (RDF) version of the profile according to Guidelines for Machine-processable Representation of Dublin Core Application Profiles, Final CWA, ISSS/WS-MMI-DC/132 (December 2004) at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cen/ws-mmi-dc/.

Name of Term	A unique token assigned to the term.
Term URI	A Uniform Resource Identifier used to identify the term.
Label	A human-readable label assigned to the term.
Defined By	An identifier of a namespace, pointer to a schema, or bibliographic reference for a document within which the term is defined.
Source Definition	The definition of the term in the namespace in which the term was orginated.
Source Comments	Comments on the term from the namespace in which the term orginated.
DC-Ed Comments	DC-Education comments about the term.
Type of term	The grammatical category of the term (e.g. "Element", "Element Refinement", or "Encoding Scheme").
Refines	The described term semantically refines the referenced term. A refinement makes the meaning of the element narrower or more specific. It will share the meaning of the unrefined element but with a more restricted scope.
Refined By	The described term is semantically refined by the referenced term.
Encoding Scheme For	The described term, an encoding scheme, qualifies the referenced term. Using an encoding scheme will aid in the interpretation of an element value. These schemes include controlled vocabularies and formal notations or parsing rules. A value expressed using an encoding scheme will thus be a token selected from a controlled vocabulary (e.g., a term from a classification system or set of subject headings) or a string formatted in accordance with a formal notation (e.g., "2000-01-01" as the standard expression of a date). If an encoding scheme is not understood by a client or agent, the value may still be useful to a human reader. In some cases, encoding schemes not yet registered are indicated. These will be registered and/or approved by the DCMI Usage Board as DC Encoding Schemes in the future.
Has Encoding Scheme	The described term is qualified by the referenced encoding scheme.
Obligation	Indicates whether the element is required to always or sometimes be present. In this application profile the obligation can be: mandatory (M), mandatory if applicable (MA), strongly recommended (R) or optional (O). Mandatory ensures that some of the elements are always supported and mandatory if applicable means that this element must be supported if the information is available. An element with a mandatory obligation must have a value. The strongly recommended and the optional elements should be filled with a value if the information is appropriate to the given resource but if not, they may be omitted.
Occurence	Indicates any limit to the repeatability of the element.

3. Table of Contents

General Notes & Open Questions
Elements & Element Refinements		Schemes
Audience Education Level Mediator Contributor Coverage Spatial Temporal Creator Date Created Date Accepted Date Copyrighted Date Submitted Issued Modified Valid Description Abstract Table of Contents Format Extent Medium Identifier Bibliographic Citation Instructional Method Language Provenance Publisher	Relation Conforms To Has Format Has Part Has Version Is Format Of Is Part Of Is Referenced By Is Replaced By Is Required By Is Version Of References Replaces Requires Rights Access Rights License Rights Holder Subject Source Title Alternative Type	— —

General notes regarding all elements:

Either a Title or Identifier are mandatory (Identifier is mandatory if applicable).
If the record is expressed in a format (e.g., HTML) that allows each element/qualifier/scheme value to be assigned a language attribute (e.g., the HTML tag lang="en"), the use of the attribute is permitted for any or all DC elements.
All elements may be used in their unqualified form. If using qualified Dublin Core, additional guidelines are given.
Any encoding scheme that has a URI defined in a non-DCMI namespace may be used. Where applicable a table has been created for each encoding scheme in a separate section following the main body of tables for elements and refinements.

4. DC-Education Application Profile

Name of Term	abstract
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/abstract
Label	Abstract
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	An account of the content of the resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	description
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	accessRights
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/accessRights
Label	Access Rights
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status.
Source Comments	Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security or other regulations.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	rights
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	alternative
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/alternative
Label	Alternative
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Any form of the title used as a substitute or alternative to the formal title of the resource.
Source Comments	This qualifier can include Title abbreviations as well as translations.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	title
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	audience
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/audience
Label	Audience
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A class of entity for whom the resource is intended or useful.
Source Comments	A class of entity may be determined by the creator or the publisher or by a third party.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	mediator educationLevel
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	O
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	bibliographicCitation
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/bibliographicCitation
Label	Bibliographic Citation
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A bibliographic reference for the resource.
Source Comments	Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible, whether or not the citation is in a standard form.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	identifier
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	O
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	conformsTo
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/conformsTo
Label	Conforms To
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A reference to an established standard to which the resource conforms.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	contributor
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor
Label	Contributor
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	An entity responsible for making contributions to the content of the resource.
Source Comments	Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organisation, or a service. Typically, the name of a Contributor should be used to indicate the entity.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	coverage
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/coverage
Label	Coverage
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The extent or scope of the content of the resource.
Source Comments	Coverage will typically include spatial location (a place name or geographic coordinates), temporal period (a period label, date, or date range) or jurisdiction (such as a named administrative entity). Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]) and that, where appropriate, named places or time periods be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	Spatial Temporal
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	created
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/created
Label	Date Created
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Date of creation of the resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	date
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	creator
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator
Label	Creator
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	An entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource.
Source Comments	Examples of a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Creator should be used to indicate the entity.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	date
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date
Label	Date
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A date associated with an event in the life cycle of the resource.
Source Comments	Typically, �date� will be associated with the creation or availability of the resource. Recommended best practice for encoding the date value is defined in a profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF] and follows the YYYY-MM-DD format.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	created dateAccepted dateCopyrighted dateSubmitted issued modified valid
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	dateAccepted
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/dateAccepted
Label	Date Accepted
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Date of acceptance of the resource (e.g. of thesis by university department, of article by journal, etc.).
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	date
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	dateCopyrighted
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/dateCopyrighted
Label	Date Copyrighted
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Date of a statement of copyright.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	date
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	dateSubmitted
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/dateSubmitted
Label	Date Submitted
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Date of submission of the resource (e.g. thesis, article, etc.).
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	date
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	description
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description
Label	Description
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	An account of the content of the resource.
Source Comments	Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, table of contents, reference to a graphical representation of content or a free-text account of the content.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	abstract tableOfContents
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	educationLevel
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/educationLevel
Label	Education Level
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A general statement describing the education or training context. Alternatively, a more specific statement of the location of the audience in terms of its progression through an education or training context.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	audience
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	extent
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/extent
Label	Extent
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The size or duration of the resource.
Source Comments	—
DC-Ed Comments	[none]
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	coverage
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	format
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/format
Label	Format
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The physical or digital manifestation of the resource.
Source Comments	Typically, Format may include the media-type or dimensions of the resource. Format may be used to determine the software, hardware or other equipment needed to display or operate the resource. Examples of dimensions include size and duration. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the list of Internet Media Types [MIME] defining computer media formats).
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	extent medium
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	hasFormat
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasFormat
Label	Has Format
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource pre-existed the referenced resource, which is essentially the same intellectual content presented in another format.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	hasPart
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasPart
Label	Has Part
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource includes the referenced resource either physically or logically.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	hasVersion
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion
Label	Has Version
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource has a version, edition, or adaptation, namely, the referenced resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	identifier
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier
Label	Identifier
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context.
Source Comments	Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system. Example formal identification systems include the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) (including the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)), the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and the International Standard Book Number (ISBN).
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	instructionalMethod
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/instructionalMethod
Label	Instructional Method
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A process, used to engender knowledge, attitudes and skills, that the resource is designed to support.
Source Comments	Instructional Method will typically include ways of presenting instructional materials or conducting instructional activities, patterns of learner-to-learner and learner-to-instructor interactions, and mechanisms by which group and individual levels of learning are measured. Instructional methods include all aspects of the instruction and learning processes from planning and implementation through evaluation and feedback.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	isFormatOf
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/isFormatOf
Label	Is Format Of
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource is the same intellectual content of the referenced resource, but presented in another format.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	isPartOf
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf
Label	Is Part Of
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource is a physical or logical part of the referenced resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	isReferencedBy
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/isReferencedBy
Label	Is Referenced By
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the referenced resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	isReplacedBy
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/isReplacedBy
Label	Is Replaced By
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource is supplanted, displaced, or superseded by the referenced resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	isRequiredBy
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/isRequiredBy
Label	Is Required By
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource is required by the referenced resource, either physically or logically.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	isVersionOf
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/isVersionOf
Label	Is Version Of
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation of the referenced resource. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	issued
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/issued
Label	Date Issued
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	date
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	language
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/language
Label	Language
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A language of the intellectual content of the resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	license
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/license
Label	License
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource.
Source Comments	Recommended best practice is to identify the license using a URI. Examples of such licenses can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	rights
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	mediator
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/mediator
Label	Mediator
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A class of entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful.
Source Comments	The audiences for a resource are of two basic classes: (1) an ultimate beneficiary of the resource, and (2) frequently, an entity that mediates access to the resource. The mediator element refinement represents the second of these two classes.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	audience
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	medium
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/medium
Label	Medium
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The material or physical carrier of the resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	format
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	modified
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/modified
Label	Date Modified
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Date on which the resource was changed.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	date
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	provenance
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/provenance
Label	Provenance
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity and interpretation.
Source Comments	The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	publisher
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/publisher
Label	Publisher
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	An entity responsible for making the resource available.
Source Comments	Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Publisher should be used to indicate the entity.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	references
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/references
Label	References
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource references, cites, or otherwise points to the referenced resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	relation
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/relation
Label	Relation
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A reference to a related resource.
Source Comments	Recommended best practice is to reference the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	conformsTo hasFormat hasPart hasVersion isFormatOf isPartOf isReferencedBy isReplacedBy isRequiredBy isVersionOf references replaces requires
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	replaces
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/replaces
Label	Replaces
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource supplants, displaces, or supersedes the referenced resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	requires
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/requires
Label	Requires
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The described resource requires the referenced resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence of content.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	relation
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	rights
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights
Label	Rights
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Information about rights held in and over the resource.
Source Comments	Typically, a Rights element will contain a rights management statement for the resource, or reference a service providing such information. Rights information often encompasses Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Copyright, and various Property Rights. If the Rights element is absent, no assumptions can be made about the status of these and other rights with respect to the resource.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	relation
Refined By	accessRights license
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	rightsHolder
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/rightsHolder
Label	Rights Holder
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.
Source Comments	Recommended best practice is to use the URI or name of the Rights Holder to indicate the entity.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	source
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/source
Label	Source
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A reference to a resource from which the present resource is derived.
Source Comments	The present resource may be derived from the Source resource in whole or in part. Recommended best practice is to reference the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	spatial
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/spatial
Label	Spatial
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Spatial characteristics of the intellectual content of the resource.
Source Comments	[none
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	coverage
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	subject
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/subject
Label	Subject
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The topic of the content of the resource.
Source Comments	Typically, a Subject will be expressed as keywords, key phrases or classification codes that describe a topic of the resource. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary or formal classification scheme.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	tableOfContents
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents
Label	Table of Contents
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A list of subunits of the content of the resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	description
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	temporal
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/temporal
Label	Temporal
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Temporal characteristics of the intellectual content of the resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	coverage
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	title
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title
Label	Title
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	A name given to the resource.
Source Comments	Typically, a title will be a name by which the resource is formally known.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	alternative
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	type
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/type
Label	Resource Type
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	The nature or genre of the content of the resource.
Source Comments	Type includes terms describing general categories, functions, genres, or aggregation levels for content. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the DCMI Type Vocabulary [DCMITYPE]). To describe the physical or digital manifestation of the resource, use the Format element.
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element
Refines	—
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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Name of Term	valid
Term URI	http://purl.org/dc/terms/valid
Label	Date Valid
Defined By	http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Source Definition	Date (often a range) of validity of a resource.
Source Comments	[none]
DC-Ed Comments	—
Type of term	element-refinement
Refines	date
Refined By	—
Encoding Scheme For	—
Has Encoding Scheme	—
Obligation	—
Occurence	—

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5. Acknowledgements

Members of the Drafting Committee:

Diane Hillmann, Chair (Cornell University, US)
Stuart Sutton, Editor (University of Washington, US)
Louise Ratliff (UCLA, US)
Nancy Conner (Indiana Humanities Council, US)
Mike Collett (Schemeta, UK)
Jon Mason (education.au, Australia)
Katy Ginger (DLESE, US)
Norm Friesen (CanCore, Canada)
Nancy Morgan (GEM Exchange, US)
Brandon Muramatsu (Utah State, US)

6. Major changes since last update

Added note regarding IEEE LOM RDF binding and pending inclusion of LOM RDF properties
Eliminated "DC-Ed Definition" from all tables
Added "Type of term" text (and link to definition) for all tables
Added bibliographicCitation and instructionalMethod
Added missing "Source Comment" when necessary
Added "Refines" links ("Refined by" still to do)
Added membership of drafting committee as of 06/10/05