Dublin Core Element : Description


4 Description
DC element syntax : DC.Description

DC Element Description:
A textual description of the content of the resource, including abstracts in the case of document-like objects or content descriptions in the case of visual resources. Future metadata collections might well include computational content description (spectral analysis of a visual resource, for example) that may not be embeddable in current network systems. In such a case this field might contain a link to such a description rather than the description itself.

The default is an abstract or a freetext description of the resource.

DC Qualifiers:

Example :

<META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="A textual description of the content of the resource, including abstracts in the case of document-like objects or content descriptions in the case of visual resources."> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#description"> <META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="(SCHEME=URL) http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/"> <LINK REL=SCHEMA.dc HREF="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements#description">

Other information:


| DC metadata Template | Short DC Template |
| Dublin Core 15 Element Set |

Created by: Preben Hansen (preben@sics.se)

Last update: 1998-01-20