Nota Bene: It is highly recommended that the user of this document read the Introduction to obtain a fuller understanding of Dublin Core and its implementation.
The description element is intended for the creator of the document to describe the documents content. The description can be a simple, short sentence or a full abstract. Descriptions can be for textual documents or image documents. The table is as follows:
| TYPE | SCHEME | LANG |
|---|---|---|
(brief description) | (default=English) Standard ISO 639 | |
at a description of resource | ||
to an external source with description |
The description of the document is pretty simple to do. The average person will only want to have a general description of the Web page. For this, only the the bare bones DC element is needed. For example:
<META NAME="DC.description" CONTENT="This is a guide providing procedures for the application of Dublin Core Metadata to Web pages.">
If the author wanted to provide a complete abstract about the document, the TYPE qualifier value abstract would be appended to the description like the creator and subject elements. In other words:
<META NAME="DC.description.abstract" CONTENT="Yeah...Yeah...Yeah...this is really long...standard abstract size...Blah...blah...blah.">The URL and URN SCHEMEs are intended to point to these descriptions in an external location, in other words in a separate document.