DCMI Metadata Terms
This version of the DCMI Terms vocabulary has been heavily trimmed for LV2.
Examples of Agent include person, organization, and software agent.
A resource that acts or has the power to act.
Agent
Examples of Agent Class include groups seen as classes, such as students, women, charities, lecturers.
A group of agents.
Agent Class
A legal document giving official permission to do something with a Resource.
License Document
Examples include written, spoken, sign, and computer languages.
A system of signs, symbols, sounds, gestures, or rules used in communication.
Linguistic System
A file format or physical medium.
Media Type
A media type or extent.
Media Type or Extent
A statement about the intellectual property rights (IPR) held in or over a Resource, a legal document giving official permission to do something with a resource, or a statement about access rights.
Rights Statement
A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated.
Standard
The set of identifiers constructed according to the generic syntax for Uniform Resource Identifiers as specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
URI
The set of dates and times constructed according to the W3C Date and Time Formats Specification.
W3C-DTF
A summary of the resource.
Abstract
The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific.
An alternative name for the resource.
alternative title
Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available.
date available
An established standard to which the described resource conforms.
conforms to
Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organization, or a service.
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource.
contributor
Date of creation of the resource.
date created
Examples of a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service.
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource.
creator
Date may be used to express temporal information at any level of granularity. Recommended best practice is to use an encoding scheme, such as the W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF].
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource.
date
Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal).
Date of acceptance of the resource.
date accepted
Date of copyright.
date copyrighted
Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal).
Date of submission of the resource.
date submitted
Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, a table of contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the resource.
An account of the resource.
description
Examples of dimensions include size and duration. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the list of Internet Media Types [MIME].
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource.
format
A related resource that is substantially the same as the pre-existing described resource, but in another format.
has format
A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource.
has part
A related resource that is a version, edition, or adaptation of the described resource.
has version
A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format.
is format of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
is part of
A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource.
is referenced by
A related resource that supplants, displaces, or supersedes the described resource.
is replaced by
A related resource that requires the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence.
is required by
Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format.
A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation.
is version of
Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource.
date issued
Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as RFC 4646.
A language of the resource.
language
A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource.
license
Date on which the resource was changed.
date modified
Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service.
An entity responsible for making the resource available.
publisher
A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource.
references
Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
A related resource.
relation
A related resource that is supplanted, displaced, or superseded by the described resource.
replaces
A related resource that is required by the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence.
requires
Typically, rights information includes a statement about various property rights associated with the resource, including intellectual property rights.
Information about rights held in and over the resource.
rights
A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.
rights holder
A name given to the resource.
title