It is recommended, however, the title be as descriptive of the document as possible. Titles can be further defined by using any of the three Canberra Qualifiers. The Table below lists some of the qualifer values. As qualifier values become standardized, they will be reflected here as well as in the other fourteen meta elements. Those qulaifiers that are most condusive to interoperability are indicated as default.
Alternative titles have the same scenario in electronic resources.
However, this is not condusive to interoperability with MARC format. On the other hand, Knight suggests that each different type of title be provided its own TYPE qualifier, which is condusive to MARC interoperability. Internal means that it is creator supplied. Keep in mind that the LANG qualifier is the language of the Dublin Core and not the Language of the document, which has its own DC element.