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 Resource Type is a one to two word description of the documents genre (type). It falls along the same lines as differentiating a book from a magazine, or more specifically, a novel from a magazine article. The DC example below uses a Freetext SCHEME.
<META NAME="DC.type" CONTENT="(SCHEME=Freetext) Photogallery">
The table is very short on content. This is partly due to the fact that there is not a TYPE qualifier specified for this Element. Also, there have only been two SCHEME qualifiers assigned.
| SCHEME | LANG |
|---|---|
(Standard=BibTeX) | (default=English) Standard ISO 639 |
think fits best) |
The default for Resource Type is DCObjects. The data for DCObjects is derived from yet another standard known as BibTeX. The table below is a subset from Dublin Core Standard Resource Types, which in turn is a subset in itself.
| DCObjects CONTENT Value | |
|---|---|
(e.g. organization's homepage) | not formerly published |
Personal homepage) | Course Material (e.g. syllabus) |
This is a good time to talk about the repeatability of the DC elements. As stressed in the intorduction, each element does not have to be used and each one is repeatable. If the documnet being described contained text and graphics, both could be listed as DC metadata. For example:
<META NAME="DC.type" CONTENT="(SCHEME=DCObjects) Poem">This will tell the search engine that the document contains a poem and an image of some sort. Search engines could look for only those poems with graphics, poems without graphics, or poems with both. Another method of searching by text documents or images is to search in the Dublin Core Format Element.
<META NAME="DC.type" CONTENT="(SCHEME=DCObjects) Image">