# Enhancing Discoverability: A Metadata Framework for Empirical Research in Theses
## Appendix B Dublin Core in Detail  
The following presents the way of defining the fifteen (15) elements and how they should be used  
**Title (Label: \"Title\"):** The name given to the resource, usually by the Creator or Publisher. **Author or Creator (Label: \"Creator\"):** The person or organization primarily responsible for creating the intellectual content of the resource. For example, authors in the case of written texts, artists, photographers, or illustrators in the case of visual resources. **Subject and Keywords (Label: \"Subject\"):** The topic of this resource. Typically, the subject will be expressed as keywords or phrases that describe the topic or content of the resource. The use of controlled vocabularies and formal classification schemes is encouraged. **Description (Label: \"Description\"):** A textual description of the content of the resource, including abstracts in the case of written texts as objects or content descriptions in the case of visual resources. **Publisher (Label: \"Publisher\"):** The responsible entity that made the resource available in its present form, such as a publishing house, a university department, or a corporate entity. **Contributor (Label: \"Contributor\"):** A person or organization not identified in the Creator element who has made a significant intellectual contribution to the resource but whose contribution is secondary to any person or organization identified in the Creator element (for example, editor, translator, and illustrator). **Date (Label: \"Date\"):** A date related to the creation and availability of the resource. Such a date should not be confused with that in the Content element, which will be associated with the resource only to the extent that the intellectual content is somehow close to the date. **Resource Type (Label: \"Type\"):** The category of the resource, such as homepage, novel, poem, work report, technical report, exhibition, dictionary. For the sake of functionality, the Type must be selected from an enumerated set of terms. **Format (Label: \"Format\"):** The data format of the resource used to certify the software and possibly hardware that may be needed for the display or operation of the source. For the sake of functionality, the Format must be selected from an enumerated set of terms. **Resource Identifier (Label: \"Identifier\"):** A phrase or number used to uniquely identify the resource. Examples for network resources include URLs or URNs (when used). Other globally unique identifiers, such as International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) or other formal names are also candidates for this element. **Source (Label: \"Source\"):** Information about a second resource from which the present resource is derived. While it is generally recommended that elements contain information about the present resource only, this element may contain the date, creator, identifier, or other data for a second resource when considered important for the discovery of the present resource. It is more recommended in practice to use the Relation element instead. For example, it is possible to use a Source from 1603 in the description of a 1996 adaptation of a [PERSON] work, but it is preferable to use the \"IsBasedOn\" Relation with reference to a separate resource whose description contains the Date 1603. Source is not appropriate if the present resource is in its primary form. **Language (Label: \"Language\"):** The language of the intellectual content of the resource. **Relation (Label: \"Relation\"):** An identifier of a second resource and its relationship to the present resource. This element allows the declaration of links between related resources and resource descriptions. Examples include a version of a work (IsVersionOf), a translation of a work (IsBasedOn), a chapter of a book (IsPartOf), and a formatting of data in an image (IsFormatOf). For the sake of functionality, relationships must be selected from an enumerated set of terms. **Coverage (Label: \"Coverage\"):** The spatial or temporal characteristics of the intellectual content of the resource.