Term Name
| Definition | Comment |
| Compulsory Fields |
| Contributor | An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource.
| Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically the name of a Contributor should be used to indicate the entity.
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| Creator | An entity primarily responsible or making the resource.
| Examples of a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically the name of a Creator should be used to indicate the entity.
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| Date | A point or period of time associated with an event in the life cycle of the resource.
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| Description | An account of the resource.
| Description may include but is not limited to : an abstract, a table of contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the resource.
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| Format | The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource. Information about rights held in and over the resource.
| Typically, rights information includes a statement about various property rights associated with the resource, including intellectual property rights.
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| Identifier | An unambigious reference to the resource within a given context.
| Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
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| Language |
A language of the resource.
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| Publisher | An entity responsible for making the resource available.
| Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Publisher should be used to indicate the entity.
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| Rights | Information about rights held in and over the resource.
| Typically, rights information includes a statement about various property rights associated with the resource, including intellectual property rights.
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| Source | A related resource from which the described resource is derived.
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Subject / Keyword
| The topic of the resource.
| Typically, the subject will be represented using keywords, key phrases, or classification codes.
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| Title | A name given to the resource.
| Typically, a Title will be a name by which the resource is formally known.
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| Type | The nature or genre of the resource.
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Optional Fields
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| Coverage | The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant.
| Spatial topic and spatial applicability may be a named place or a location specified by its geographic coordinates. Temporal topic may be a named period, date, or date range. A jurisdiction may be a named administrative entity or a geographic place to which the resource applies.
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| Relation | A related resource.
| Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
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