The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, or “DCMI”, is an open organization which is involved in the development of interoperable metadata standards. These standards are aimed to help to find, share and manage information.
The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set arose from discussions held in at a workshop called the “OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop” and hosted in 1995. The name of the initiative derives from the fact that this workshop took place in Dublin, Ohio, U.S.
The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard in the fields of library and computer science. It is intended to be used for cross-domain information resource description. It defines conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easy to find. Dublin Core is widely used to describe digital materials such as video, sound, image, text, and composite media like web pages. Implementations of Dublin Core typically make use of XML and are Resource Description Framework based. Dublin Core is defined by ISO in ISO Standard 15836, and NISO.
The semantics of Dublin Core were established and are maintained by an international, cross-disciplinary group of professionals from librarianship, computer science, text encoding, museums, and other related fields of scholarship and practice.
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an organization providing an open forum for the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI’s activities include consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.
Sources:
- The Homepage of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: http://dublincore.org/
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