The Dublin Core Schema is a small set of vocabulary terms that can be used to describe different resources.
Dublin Core Metadata may be used for multiple purposes, from simple resource description, to combining metadata vocabularies of different metadata standards, to providing inter-operability for metadata vocabularies in the Linked data cloud and Semantic web implementations.
Most used applications of Dublin Core Metadata are RDF and OWL. I will describe OWL in my next post.
RDF stands for Resource Description Framework. It is a standard model for data interchange on the Web. RDF has features that facilitate data merging even if the underlying schemas differ, and it specifically supports the evolution of schemas over time without requiring all the data consumers to be changed.
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