CO:dc:date

dc:date
 

Scheme description / Schemenbeschreibung / Description du schéma

Position of dc:date in the XML-Tree / Position von dc:date im XML-Baum / position de dc:date dans l’aborescence XML

• Parent: <metadata>
• Children: <any>

Multiplicity / Anzahl / Multiplicité

[1..1]

Semantics / Bedeutung / Sémantique

Dublin Core definition

"A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource."

Dublin Core description

"Date may be used to express temporal information at any level of granularity. Recommended best practice is to use an encoding scheme, such as the W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601."

railML semantics

This may be a combination of the date and time when the data set (railML file) was created. It may be represented according to xs:dateTime.

Attributes of dc:date / Attribute von dc:date / Attributs de dc:date

• xml:lang (introduced with version 2.1): This is a unique identifier of language. It uses basically the language standard IETF BCP 47 (external link) which may be different to ISO 639-1 (external link) or ISO 639-2 (external link). For mapping hints see relation to other standards (external link).
  The usage of xml:lang does not make any sense in the context of a portable ISO 8601 date and time format.

Syntactic Constraints / Syntaktische Beschränkungen / Contraintes syntactiques

• xml:lang: xs:language, language identification, optional

The Element <dc:date> may occur once.

Best practice & Examples / Empfohlene Anwendung & Beispiele / Bonnes pratiques & exemples

  <dc:date>2002-10-10T17:00:00Z</dc:date>

Notes / Anmerkungen / Notes

None.

Open issues / Offene Punkte/Pendenzen / Questions ouvertes

Not yet described. / Noch nicht beschrieben. / Pas encore décrit.