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http://www.sics.se/~preben/DC/description_help.html
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Dublin Core Element : Description
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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:
SCHEME:
URL
The value of this element is a URL to an external representation of the description of the resource.
TYPE:
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">
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http://www.loc.gov/marc/dc/descripti...sion_prop.html
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DC-Libraries Working Group
Proposal: Version qualifier for Description element
13 April 2002
This proposal is for review by Dublin Core community. It proposes a new element refinement Version for the element DC:Description that is included in the proposed DC-Library Application Profile. This review period is 15 April-11 May 2002.
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http://www.valdosta.edu/~gfrost/dcdescription.html
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The description element is intended for the creator of the document to describe the documents content. The description can be a simple, short sentence or a full abstract. Descriptions can be for textual documents or image documents. The table is as follows:
TYPE Freetext (default)
SCHEME (brief description) Internal (default) DC language
LANG (default=English) Standard ISO 639
TYPE Abstract
SCHEME URL (points at a description of resource
SCHEME URN (pointing to an external source with description
The description of the document is pretty simple to do. The average person will only want to have a general description of the Web page. For this, only the the bare bones DC element is needed. For example:
<META NAME="DC.description" CONTENT="This is a guide providing procedures for the application of Dublin Core Metadata to Web pages.">
If the author wanted to provide a complete abstract about the document, the TYPE qualifier value abstract would be appended to the description like the creator and subject elements. In other words:
<META NAME="DC.description.abstract" CONTENT="Yeah...Yeah...Yeah...this is really long...standard abstract size...Blah...blah...blah.">
The URL and URN SCHEMEs are intended to point to these descriptions in an external location, in other words in a separate document.
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