The agent or agency responsible for making the object available in its present form. The data representation of the object, such as Postscript file or Windows executable file. Language of the intellectual content. As mentioned above, the meta elements resemble the information used in a reference list or bibliography. This is another key design feature that will make the application and utilization of the elements easier.
All elements are repeatable.
There cannot be any empty elements. The design of the Dublin Core Metadata package was deliberately made simple to allow the describing of documents by creators easier. Creators of DLOs will be encouraged to use standard resources for descriptions of their works, but in reality they only need to know how to input what they know. This deliberate simplicity of the DC is one of the key reasons that make this approach of electronic document description workable and desirable. As a means of distiguishing between Dublin Core elements and others, the DC acronym, known as a Schema Identifier, is attached as a prefix to the META NAME value , separated by a full stop.