Metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including properties, vocabulary encoding schemes, syntax encoding schemes, and classes.

Deprecation Notice: While the /elements/1.1/ namespace will be supported indefinitely, DCMI gently encourages use of the /terms/ namespace (i.e., dcterms) (source).

Prefix
dc
Preferred Prefix
dc
Alternative Prefixes
dc11 dc.elements dce
Keywords
annotation biomedical science life science metadata metadata standardization ontology resource metadata subject agnostic
Links
Homepage OWL RDF
Contact
Kim Durante   0000-0001-9052-2854
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier
contributor   Resolve
Example CURIE
dc:contributor
Contributors
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection
Semantic Web Context
Metaregistry Dublin Core Elements (1.1)

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl dcelements
BioContext biocontext dc
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal DC
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.3nx7t
LOV Linked Open Vocabularies logo lov dce
OLS Ontology Lookup Service logo ols dc
Zazuko Zazuko Prefix Server logo zazuko dc11
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier contributor is used to demonstrate the providers available for Dublin Core Elements (1.1). A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Dublin Core Elements (1.1) dc http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/dc:contributor