Central Characteristics of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

• Descriptive metadata for resource discovery

• All elements optional

  • constraints are established at application level, not by the semantic specification

• All elements repeatable

• Extensible (a starting place for richer description)

• Interdisciplinary (semantic interoperability)

• International (17 countries, 4 continents)

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