Expressing Dublin Core in Topic Maps

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. Its most important standard is the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. This and other vocabularies developed by Dublin Core are defined as abstract models which may be expressed in any number of different syntaxes. This talk presents a proposal for expressing such metadata using Topic Maps and describes the benefits this brings.