Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books

The NLM metadata schema is based on the metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including elements, element refinements, encoding schemes, and vocabulary terms (cf. http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/). It also incorporates some of the best practice recommendations of the DC-Library Application Profile (DC-Lib) (cf. http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/04/16/library-application-profile/). It is designed for use with electronic resources published by the Library and incorporates additional elements and qualifiers identified as requirements by NLM, most notably the addition of Permanence ratings for each resource.

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Identifier	met0014
Title	NLM Metadata Schema
Creator	National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Date	2009-07-22
Note	Last reviewed: 22 July 2009; First published: 01 February 2002
File type	html
Category	Guidelines
Rights	National Institutes of Health (NIH)
System requirements	Web browser
Mode of Access	No restriction to full text
Description	The NLM metadata schema is based on the metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including elements, element refinements, encoding schemes, and vocabulary terms (cf. http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/). It also incorporates some of the best practice recommendations of the DC-Library Application Profile (DC-Lib) (cf. http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/04/16/library-application-profile/). It is designed for use with electronic resources published by the Library and incorporates additional elements and qualifiers identified as requirements by NLM, most notably the addition of Permanence ratings for each resource.
Subject	Resource Discovery
Subject	Metadata -Standards
Subject	Dublin Core
Identifier-URI	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/metafilenew.html
Remote access	Access to fulltext
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