It is highly recommended that the user of this document read the Introduction to obtain a fuller understanding of Dublin Core and its implementation. The description element is intended for the creator of the document to describe the documents content. The description can be a simple, short sentence or a full abstract.
Descriptions can be for textual documents or image documents.
The description of the document is pretty simple to do. The average person will only want to have a general description of the Web page. For this, only the the bare bones DC element is needed. If the author wanted to provide a complete abstract about the document, the TYPE qualifier value abstract would be appended to the description like the creator and subject elements.