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
dce dc11 dcelem elements dc.elements
Keywords
annotation biomedical science life science metadata metadata standardization ontology resource metadata subject agnostic
Links
Homepage RDF
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier
contributor   Resolve
Example CURIE
dc:contributor
Format String for RDF URIs
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/$1
Example RDF URI
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor
Ontology

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

In Collection (1)
Semantic Web Context
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 6 mappings to external registries with 4 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext dc
BioPortal BioPortal logo bioportal DC
FAIRsharing FAIRsharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.3nx7t
LOV Linked Open Vocabularies logo lov dce
OLS EBI Ontology Lookup Service logo ols dc
Zazuko 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). Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name Provider Code URI
Dublin Core Elements (1.1) dc http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor
Dublin Core Elements (1.1) (RDF) rdf http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/dc:contributor
EBI Ontology Lookup Service ols https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/dc/terms?iri=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor
BioPortal bioportal https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/DC/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor