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Presentation Server Reference Manual
6 Dublin Core Metadata
6.1
M
ETADATA
FOR
AN
E
PISODE
(
A
SINGLE
RECORDING
)
The server organizes and indexes its recordings with metadata text which follows an industry standard called
“Dublin Core”. This standard is a comprehensive standard used for describing digital assets and is used
extensively by digital libraries. The metadata is used by the text search engines to retrieve recordings, by the
media player to describe thumbnail views, and in other places throughout the system.
The following table provides additional descriptions about the use of the metadata entries found in the server's
administrative pages:
Term
Definition
Description/Comment
Example
Title
A name given to the
resource.
Typically, a Title will be a name by which the
resource is formally known (title of a talk). If no
title is officially assigned to the item as it
sometimes is the case for individual lectures, a
successive numbering might be applied ("Lecture
No.3"). Additional information such as a date or
the title of the series should be avoided.
An Introduction to the
Presentation Server
Creator
An entity primarily
responsible for
making the resource.
"The person(s) you see". The main presenter,
speaker, instructor or teacher (can be more than
one if they share the actual talk/lecture). Where
several individuals are organizing a lecture, they
would collectively be "contributors" to the series,
whereas the creator of the item is the one actually
giving the lecture / holding the talk. Also, if a
guest lecturer holds this specific lecture (not
being a contributor to the lecture series), he or
she would be identified here.
Jeanne Schmitt
IsPartOf
The described
resource is a physical
or logical part of the
referenced resource.
Refers to dcterms:identifier (series) tag.
10.3930/AV-cfb2f3d3-
25b4-40d9-ae9f-
498ad9f8da10
Description An account of the
resource.
Description may include but is not limited to: an
abstract, table of contents, reference to a
graphical representation of content or a free-text
account of the content.
An introduction to
NCast's Presentation
Server for
Administrators and New
Users.
Subject
The topic of the
content of the
resource.
Typically, a Subject will be expressed as
keywords or key phrases or classification codes
that describe the topic of the resource.
Recommended best practice is to select a value
from a controlled vocabulary or formal
classification scheme.
PS, server, NCast, cms
Language
A language of the
resource.
Recommended best practice for the values of the
Language element is defined by RFC 3066 /
(ISO 639-2, ISO 639-3 and ISO 639-5),
defines three-letter primary language tags with
optional subtags.
eng
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