Basic declarations

This section contains topic declarations for the fifteen core metadata elements, in aform which can be inserted directly into a topic map. 4.1
Names The element title is represented as a topic name of type dc:title, since it is clearly anaming property:[title = "Title"@" http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title"]
4.2

Occurrences

The elements date, description, identifier and rights are represented as occurrencesof the corresponding type, since their values are strings, dates or URIs: [date = "Date"@" http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date"][description = "Description"@" http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description"][identifier = "Identifier"@" http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier"][rights = "Rights"@" http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights"] 4.3

Associations

The elements contributor, coverage, author,format,language,publisher,relation,source,subject and type are represented as associations of the correspondingtype; in each case, the role played by the resource to which the metadata is bein