DublinCore

From the website...

: The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global workshops, conferences, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.

In English, they're trying to standardize MetaData?.

See also the list of DublinCore [elements].

The DublinCore is used in the ResourceDescriptionFramework. If you're interested in RichSiteSummary, please see their [official standard] for the dc XML namespace.

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