Metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including properties, vocabulary encoding schemes, syntax encoding schemes, and classes.

Deprecation Notice: While the /elements/1.1/ namespace will be supported indefinitely, DCMI gently encourages use of the /terms/ namespace (i.e., dcterms) (source).

Prefix

dc

Preferred Prefix

dc

Alternative Prefixes

dc.elements dc11 dcelem dce elements

Keywords

annotation biomedical science life science metadata metadata standardization ontology resource metadata subject agnostic

Links

Homepage OWL RDF

Contact

Kim Durante   0000-0001-9052-2854

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

contributor   Resolve

Example CURIE

dc:contributor

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

In Collection

Semantic Web Context

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier contributor is used to demonstrate the providers available for Dublin Core Elements (1.1). Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.