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Note: In addition to the child page of mappings linked below, see the grandchild pages, "Samples and decision points for mappings." and "Sample proposed  Proposed phased schemas"

Glossary of Terms

• DCMI
  
  • Dublin Core Metadata Initiative http://dublincore.org/
  • The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) manages the long term curation and development of DCMI specifications and metadata terms namespaces
• DCMI Metadata Terms
  
  • http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
  • Specification of all metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including properties, vocabulary encoding schemes, syntax encoding schemes, and classes
• DCMES
  
  • Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1 http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
• DCTERMS
  
  • Properties in the /terms/ namespace http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#H2
• DC
  
  • 'Simple Dublin Core' (elements only, no qualifiers)
  • Properties in the /elements/1.1/ namespace http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#H3
  • The fifteen terms of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, which have also been published as IETF RFC 5013 [RFC5013], ANSI/NISO Standard Z39.85-2007 [NISOZ3985], and ISO Standard 15836:2009 [ISO15836]
  • Schema name of the DSpace (up to 3.x) metadata registry default/shipped with schema (incorrectly referred to as dcmi-terms)
• QDC
  • Elements with qualifiers
  • Qualified Dublin Core (QDC)

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For proposed phased schema changes see: Sample proposed Proposed phased schemas

Phase One: Update current default 'dc' schema in metadata registry to latest qualified Dublin Core, add 'dcterms' and 'local' as parallel schemas in registry

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