Dublin Core Example in RDF

One obvious application for RDF is in the description of web pages. This is one of the basic functions of the Dublin Core (DC) initiative. The Dublin Core is a set of 15 metadata elements (such as Title, Subject, Publisher etc.) used to descibe resources on the Web. Dublin Core has gathered experts from the library world and the networking and digital library research communites. Dublin Core is intended to be usable by non-catalogers as well as by those with experience with formal resource description models.

Dublin Core is currently being used in many places, and is one of the foundations that RDF is building on.

I'll now show you an example, that uses the RDF syntax to encode Dublin Core metadata within HTML documents.

An inline Dublin Core example of this article would then have the following syntax: