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Dublin Core / DCMI Metadata Terms

Metadata Model Metadata openly published

This document is an up-to-date specification of all metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including properties, vocabulary encoding schemes, syntax encoding schemes, and classes....

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, from their own og:description

What I make of it

Foundational gap — arguably the most widely reused metadata model in existence.

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Model Details
Steward Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Origin International United States
Layer Metadata Model
Domain Metadata
Status live
Access Openly published
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 5/5. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
71.4 Modernizing
Access Open
Assessed 63.0% of the rubric

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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