the Open Archives home page

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

 
The Santa Fe Convention is discontinued. Please use the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting instead.

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 Open Archives home page

get in touch with the Open Archives initiative by contacting openarchives@openarchives.org

  last updated January 20th 2001