Chapter 2 - Section 1. Metadata for general purposes
Dublin Core Exercises

DC creation tool to be used:

Online:

  • DC-Dot's Dublin Core metadata editor http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/

    Note:
    1. Submit any Web page's URL and get a suggested metadata record in XHTML format. Then use the template to edit the record. Records must be manually edited.
    2. Use a semi-colon (;) for multiple values, e.g., multiple subject terms; Use two pipe lines (||) for repeating elements, e.g., two statements about format.

Offline: Download DC template (PDF file)

If you use an XML editor: download the XML Schemas
http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/

Best Practices:

Exercises:

1.1 Create a DC record for a single-file journal article:

1.2 Create a DC record for a multi-file online tutorial:

1.3 Create collection level DC records for:

  1. D-Lib Magazine.
    Note: Please treat the whole magazine, not a particular issue.
    URLs: http://www.dlib.org/ and http://www.dlib.org/about.html

  2. Xpeditions website http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/

  3. Explore Mars Now
    http://www.exploremarsnow.org

1.4 Create a DC record for a dynamic content Web site that provides dynamic information on the screen based on the search or browse queries:

1.5 Create a DC record for a Web page that contains multiple contributors:

 

Standard vocabularies and rules for appropriate values that will be used in the records of this exercise.