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SOIF IANA-DUBLINCORE template type


Registration Form

This is a registration for for the SOIF Dublin Core template type, formatted according to http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-find-soif-registry-00.txt
1. Registrant's Name                              Andy Powell
2. Registrant's Organization        UKOLN, University of Bath
3. Registrant's email address            a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk
 
4. Registrant's postal address                          UKOLN
                                           University of Bath
                                                 Bath BA2 7AY
                                               United Kingdom
5. Registrant's telephone number              +44 1225 323933
6. Proposed Template Type IDENTIFIER:         IANA-DUBLINCORE
7. If this Template Type relates to an existing Template Type
list the Template Type(s) and the relationship:
Template Type                     Relationship 
8. For each ATTRIBUTE in this Template type, provide the 
following information:

a) NAME Title
b) Reference Template Type 
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   The name given to the resource, usually by the Creator or Publisher.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Creator
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   The person or organization primarily responsible for creating the
   intellectual content of the resource.  For example, authors in the
   case of written documents, artists, photographers, or illustrators in
   the case of visual resources.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Subject
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   The topic of the resource.  Typically, subject will be expressed as
   keywords or phrases that describe the subject or content of the
   resource.  The use of controlled vocabularies and formal
   classification schemes is encouraged.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Description
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   A textual description of the content of the resource, including
   abstracts in the case of document-like objects or content
   descriptions in the case of visual resources.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Publisher
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   The entity responsible for making the resource available in its
   present form, such as a publishing house, a university department, or
   a corporate entity.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Contributor
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   A person or organization not specified in a Creator element who has
   made significant intellectual contributions to the resource but whose
   contribution is secondary to any person or organization specified in
   a Creator element (for example, editor, transcriber, and
   illustrator).
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Date
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   A date associated with the creation or availability of the resource.
   Recommended best practice is defined in a profile of ISO 8601 [3]
   that includes (among others) dates of the forms YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD.
   In this scheme, for example, the date 1994-11-05 corresponds to
   November 5, 1994.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Type
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   The category of the resource, such as home page, novel, poem, working
   paper, technical report, essay, dictionary.  For the sake of
   interoperability, Type should be selected from an enumerated list
   that is currently under development in the workshop series.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Format
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   The data format and, optionally, dimensions (e.g., size, duration) of
   the resource.  The format is used to identify the software and
   possibly hardware that might be needed to display or operate the
   resource.  For the sake of interoperability, the format should be
   selected from an enumerated list that is currently under development
   in the workshop series.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Identifier
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   A string or number used to uniquely identify the resource.  Examples
   for networked resources include URLs and URNs (when implemented).
   Other globally-unique identifiers, such as International Standard
   Book Numbers (ISBN) or other formal names are also candidates for
   this element.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Source
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   Information about a second resource from which the present resource
   is derived.  While it is generally recommended that elements contain
   information about the present resource only, this element may contain
   metadata for the second resource when it is considered important for
   discovery of the present resource.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Language
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   The language of the intellectual content of the resource.
   Recommended best practice is defined in RFC 1766 [4].
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Relation
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   An identifier of a second resource and its relationship to the
   present resource.  This element is used to express linkages among
   related resources.  For the sake of interoperability, relationships
   should be selected from an enumerated list that is currently under
   development in the workshop series.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Coverage
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   The spatial or temporal characteristics of the intellectual content
   of the resource.  Spatial coverage refers to a physical region (e.g.,
   celestial sector) using place names or coordinates (e.g., longitude
   and latitude).  Temporal coverage refers to what the resource is
   about rather than when it was created or made available (the latter
   belonging in the Date element).  Temporal coverage is typically
   specified using named time periods (e.g., neolithic) or the same
   date/time format [3] as recommended for the Date element.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

a) NAME Rights
b) Reference Template Type
c) ATTRIBUTE Description
   A rights management statement, an identifier that links to a rights
   management statement, or an identifier that links to a service
   providing information about rights management for the resource.
d) Required [] or Optional [X]?
e) Data Type and ecoding for this VALUE STRING
f) If a specific language and character set are expected, list
them here 
g) Is a null value permitted? Yes [X] No []

Maintained by: Andy Powell
Last updated: 21-Sep-1998

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