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Label |
DC.Publisher |
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Definition |
Identifies the (corporate) entity responsible for making the resource available in its current form |
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Purpose |
Allows the searcher to locate a document based on the publisher of the document, or to find all resources made available by a particular organisation. |
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Obligation |
Mandatory |
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Qualifier |
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Encoding Scheme |
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Examples |
<meta name="DC.Publisher" content="Department of Finance"> <meta name="DC.Publisher" content="Comhairle"> |
Best practice is to list the name of the organisation that provides access to the resource in its current form, not the name of the person or section, e.g. Department of Finance, Office of the Ombudsman. Though they may be one and the same, the organisation that hosts the document on its web server is not to be mistaken for the publisher.