A description of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set has now been
published as an Internet Engineering Task Force Informational RFC
(Request For Comments). This means that the Dublin Core has attained
significantly more status as a recognised and stable standard for
creating simple descriptions of networked resources, and should help to
encourage it's more widespread adoption.
John A. Kunze wrote:
>
> The RFC Editor has announced the publication of Informational RFC 2413,
>
> "Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery"
>
> available at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2413.txt
>
> This is the specification of the 15-element Dublin Core metadata set,
> and the first in a series of planned Informational RFCs on DC.
> The official announcement is included below.
>
> A minor correction was made to the RFC today around 10am PDT, so those
> who obtained the RFC yesterday or who have a copy of the most recently
> published Internet Draft will likely want to download the RFC now.
Cheers,
T.
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