the Santa Fe Convention : XML transportation format for dc (Dublin Core) metadata format

The syntax description of dc can be found at http://purl.org/DC/documents/rec-dces-19990702.htm

XML DTD for dc

The plain text DTD file can be retrieved here.

<!- Dublin Core -->
<!-- This DTD can be used to represent the elements of the
Dublin Core Metadata Set-->
<!-- Version taken from page 85 of CIMI Report http://www.cimi.org/documents/meta_bestprac_final_0899.pdf -->
<!ENTITY % doctype "dc">             
<!ELEMENT %doctype; (title*, creator*, subject*, description*, publisher*, contributor*, 
                     date*, type*, format*, identifier*, source*,
                     language*, relation*, coverage*, rights*)>
<!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT creator (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT subject (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT description (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT publisher (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT contributor (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT date (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT type (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT format (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT identifier (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT source (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT language (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT relation (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT coverage (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT rights (#PCDATA)>

Supporting information is available at:

• the Santa Fe Convention
• the core document of the Santa Fe Convention
• the Open Archives Metadata Set
• the Open Archives Dienst Subset
• the list of Open Archives data providers, including their unique archive identifiers
• the list of Open Archives service providers
• the list of metadata formats used in the Open Archives context
• the template to be used by data providers to register as a Santa Fe compliant archive
• the template to be used by service providers to register as a Santa Fe compliant service

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	last updated January 20th 2001