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Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group S. Weibel
Request for Comments: 2413 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Category: Informational J. Kunze
University of California, San Francisco
C. Lagoze
Cornell University
M. Wolf
Reuters Limited
September 1998
Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery
1. Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
2. Abstract
The Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Series began in 1995 with an
invitational workshop which brought together librarians, digital
library researchers, content experts, and text-markup experts to
promote better discovery standards for electronic resources. The
Dublin Core is a 15-element set of descriptors that has emerged from
this effort in interdisciplinary and international consensus
building. This is the first of a set of Informational RFCs
describing the Dublin Core. Its purpose is to introduce the Dublin
Core and to describe the consensus reached on the semantics of each
of the 15 elements.
3. Introduction
Finding relevant information on the World Wide Web has become
increasingly problematic due to the explosive growth of networked
resources. Current Web indexing evolved rapidly to fill the demand
for resource discovery tools, but that indexing, while useful, is a
poor substitute for richer varieties of resource description.
An invitational workshop held in March of 1995 brought together
librarians, digital library researchers, and text-markup specialists
to address the problem of resource discovery for networked resources.
Weibel, et. al. Informational