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DCMI term declarations represented in RDF schema language

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is an evolving metadata framework that provides a degree of semantic interoperability among applications that exchange machine-understandable metadata on the Web. RDF Schema is a specification developed and maintained under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium. More information is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/.

DCMI acknowledges the potential importance of RDF for the definition, maintenance and deployment of Dublin Core, and is happy to engage in discussion regarding how exactly RDF can be used. However, until these discussions are settled, users of RDF guidelines and schemas posted on the DCMI Web site need to be aware that these resources may be subject to change based on the results of further discussions within DCMI and W3C.

The following RDF schemas are in use in projects or products using DCMI metadata:

Simple DC RDF Schema, version

This schema defines terms for Simple Dublin Core (the original 15 elements).

http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/

DC Refinements, Encoding Schemes and Other Elements RDF Schema, version

This schema defines element refinements, encoding schemes and other elements.

http://purl.org/dc/terms/

DC Type Vocabulary, version

This schema defines the Dublin Core type vocabulary.

: two new terms added to DCMI Type Vocabulary ("Moving Image" and "Still Image"). Their relationship to the existing term "Image" ("Narrower Than") is expressed using rdfs:subClassOf.

http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/