PRCC Community Library

PRCC Community Library Dublin Core Cataloging Worksheet 1.0 1/26/03

Title: ______

Creator*: ______(E.g., Author, painter, organization)

Subject & Keywords*: ______(Words or numbers: e.g., terms selected from a published list, library call numbers)

Description: ______(May include abstract, table of contents, or your own description of the content)

Publisher: ______

Contributor*: ______(Other people or organizations—besides the main creator--who contributed to the content, e.g., translator)

Date: ______(Typically, date of creation or when it became available; can refined with other dates)

Resource Type*: ______(The nature or genre, like book, magazine, homepage, poem, painting, newspaper article)

Format*: ______(The physical or digital manifestation, e.g. text, html, jpeg; tells what equipment, software you need to display or operate the resource. Can refine with “extent” (size, duration) information)

Resource Identifier*: ______(An unambiguous ID. Should take from a formal ID system, like book’s ISBN number, URL)

Source*: ______(The formal ID of a resource from which the one you’re cataloging is taken from, in whole or part; e.g., the name or ISSN number of the journal that your article came from)

Language*: ______

Relation*: ______(A reference to a related resource; use name or numbers taken from a formal ID system)

Coverage*: ______(Geographic and temporal scope of the content, e.g., Latin America, 19th C.)

Rights Management: ______(Information about the rights held, e.g., copyright statement)

Audience*: ______(Description of who might find the resource useful, its intended audience)

* Best practice is to select terms or numbers from some kind of a “controlled vocabulary” or other formal, standardized list (like Library of Congress Subject Headings, the Thesaurus of Geographic Names, the List of Internet Media Types, or the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Dewey Decimal call numbers, an “authority file” list of proper names, or the International Standard Book Number that appears in most published books). This can also be a controlled list of terms or numbers that you make up and maintain yourself. “Keywords” are often NOT controlled.