Describes the 2007-04-02 version of the DCMI Abstract Model and presents some thoughts on the way the emergence of the DCAM has the potential to change perceptions of "Dublin Core".

1. An Introduction to the DCMI Abstract Model JISC CETIS Metadata & Digital Repositories SIG meeting, Manchester

3. Context & Motivation: Why the DCAM?

6. The DCMI Abstract Model

7. Proposed Recommendation http://dublincore.org/documents/2007/04/02/abstract-model/

10. DCAM Resource Model

12. DCAM Description Set Model

14. Resource URI Resource URI Description Set Description Statement Property URI Literal Value Surrogate Description Statement Property URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Statement Property URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate

16. Value URI Value string Description Set Description Statement Property URI Resource URI Literal Value Surrogate Description Statement Property URI Resource URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Statement Property URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Vocab Enc Scheme URI Value URI Value string Value string

18. Syntax Enc Scheme URI Description Set Description Statement Property URI Resource URI Literal Value Surrogate Description Statement Property URI Resource URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Statement Property URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Value URI Vocab Enc Scheme URI Value URI Value string Value string Value string Language Language

20. Description Set Description Statement Property URI Resource URI Literal Value Surrogate Description Statement Property URI Resource URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Statement Property URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Value URI Vocab Enc Scheme URI Value URI Value string Value string Value string Syntax Enc Scheme URI Language Language

21. Description Set Description Statement Property URI Literal Value Surrogate Description Statement Property URI Resource URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Statement Property URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Vocab Enc Scheme URI Value URI Value string Value string Value string Syntax Enc Scheme URI Language Language

22. Some example description sets

23. Description Property URI Resource URI Example 1: Single description containing one statement with non-literal value surrogate Non-Literal Value Surrogate Value URI Description Set Statement

24. Description Set Description Statement <http://purl.org/dc/terms/publisher> <http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/> <http://example.org/org/DCMI> Example 1: Single description containing one statement with non-literal value surrogate @prefix dcterms <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> . DescriptionSet ( Description ( ResourceURI ( <http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/> ) Statement ( PropertyURI ( dcterms:publisher ) ValueURI (<http://example.org/org/DCMI> ) ) ) ) Non-Literal Value Surrogate Property URI Value URI

25. Description Set Description Property URI Resource URI Example 2: Single description containing two statements with non-literal value surrogates Statement Property URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Non-Literal Value Surrogate Value URI Language Language Statement Vocab Enc Scheme URI Value URI Value string Value string

26. Description Set Description Example 2: Single description containing two statements with non-literal value surrogates Statement <http:/purl.org/dc/terms/subject> Non-Literal Value Surrogate Non-Literal Value Surrogate <http://example.org/terms/mySH> “ Metadata” &quot;Métadonnées&quot; en fr <http://purl.org/dc/terms/publisher> <http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/> <http://example.org/org/DCMI> Property URI Value URI <http://example.org/org/mySH/h123> Value URI Property URI Vocab Enc Scheme URI Value String Value String Statement

27. @prefix dcterms <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> . DescriptionSet ( Description ( ResourceURI ( <http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/> ) Statement ( PropertyURI ( dcterms:publisher ) ValueURI (<http://example.org/org/DCMI> ) ) Statement ( PropertyURI ( dcterms:subject ) ValueURI (<http://example.org/mySH/h123> ) VocabEncSchemeURI (<http://example.org/terms/mySH> ) ValueString ( “Metadata” Language (en ) ) ValueString ( &quot;Métadonnées&quot; Language (fr ) ) ) ) ) Example 2: Single description containing two statements with non-literal value surrogates

28. Description Set Description Property URI Resource URI Example 3: Two descriptions, statements with non-literal value surrogates & literal value surrogates Statement Property URI Non-Literal Value Surrogate Non-Literal Value Surrogate Vocab Enc Scheme URI Value URI Value string Value string Value URI Language Language Description Resource URI Property URI Literal Value Surrogate Value string Language Statement Statement

29. Description Set Description Statement <http:/purl.org/dc/terms/subject> Non-Literal Value Surrogate Non-Literal Value Surrogate <http://example.org/terms/mySH> “ Metadata” &quot;Métadonnées&quot; en fr <http://purl.org/dc/terms/publisher> <http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/> <http://example.org/org/DCMI> Property URI Value URI <http://example.org/org/mySH/h123> Value URI Property URI Vocab Enc Scheme URI Value String Value String Example 3: Two descriptions, statements with non-literal value surrogates & literal value surrogates Description <http://example.org/org/DCMI> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/ 0.1/name> Literal Value Surrogate “ Dublin Core Metadata Initiative” en Value String Property URI Statement Statement

30. @prefix dcterms <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> . @prefix foaf <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> . DescriptionSet ( Description ( ResourceURI ( <http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/> ) Statement ( PropertyURI ( dcterms:publisher ) ValueURI (<http://example.org/org/DCMI> ) ) Statement ( PropertyURI ( dcterms:subject ) ValueURI (<http://example.org/mySH/h123> ) VocabEncSchemeURI (<http://example.org/terms/mySH> ) ValueString ( “Metadata” Language (en ) ) ValueString ( &quot;Métadonnées&quot; Language (fr ) ) ) ) Description ( ResourceURI ( <http://example.org/org/DCMI> ) Statement ( PropertyURI ( foaf:name ) LiteralValueString ( “Dublin Core Metadata Initiative” Language (en) ) ) ) )

31. DCAM Vocabulary Model

34. The DCAM & “DC application profiles”

36. The DCAM & “encoding guidelines”

38. System A DC Description Set DC-XML Instance Encode Construct using DCAM & DCAP Decode DC Description Set Interpret using DCAM System B DC-XML Instance <?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?> <dcx:descriptionSet>

40. Some thoughts on Dublin Core in 2007

43. An Introduction to the DCMI Abstract Model JISC CETIS Metadata & Digital Repositories SIG meeting, Manchester