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Translations of DCMI Documents

Members of the DCMI Community have taken the time to translate DCMI documents. A list of these translations is maintained on this page.

DCMI Metadata Terms

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by Shanghai Library )
• Italian - maintained by Pasquale Popolizio, Websemantico.org )
• Latvian - translation by the National Library of Latvia )
• Norwegian - translation by Frank Berg Haugen and Carol van Nuys for the Norwegian Committee on Cataloguing )

Overview of Documentation for DCMI Metadata Terms

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by the Shanghai Library

Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile Summary

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by Shanghai Library )

Dublin Core Element Set: Reference Description, v. 1.1

• Arabic - maintained by Hachim Haddouti )
• Chinese (Big 5 font) - hosted by Cheng-Juei Wu, Prof. in Library & Information Science Dept. at Fu-Jen University (undated)
• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by Shanghai Library )
• Finnish - by Jani Stenvall and Juha Hakala, Helsinki University Library )
• French - by Anne-Marie Vercoustre, Inria )
• Greek (Word file) - by Sarantos Kapidakis, Laboratory on Digital Library and Electronic Publishing Ionian University )
• Italian - by Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information (undated)
• Interlingua - by Emerson José Silveira da Costa )
• Korean - by Sam-Gyun Oh, SungKyunKwan University )
• Latvian - translation by the National Library of Latvia )
• Maori (undated)
• Marathi - by Shubhada Nagarkar, Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune (undated)
• Norwegian - by Frank B. Haugen and Carol van Nuys, Nasjonalbiblioteket )
• Persian - by Sayyed Mahdi Taheri )
• Polish - by Marek Nahotko, EBIB Electronic Information Bulletin For Librarians )
• Portuguese - by José Luis Borbinha, National Library of Portugal )
• Russian - by Olga Barysheva, National Library of Russia )
• Swedish - by Stina Degerstedt, The Royal Library, National Library of Sweden )
• Thai (Word file) - by Praditta Siripan, Technical Information Access Center (TIAC) )

Dublin Core Qualifiers

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by Shanghai Library )
• Finnish - by Jani Stenvall and Juha Hakala )
• Greek (Word file) - by Sarantos Kapidakis, Laboratory on Digital Library and Electronic Publishing Ionian University )
• Korean - by Sam Oh )
• Polish - by Marek Nahotko )
• Russian - by Olga Barysheva, National Library of Russia )
• Spanish - by Marcela Calderon, Universidad de Chile (undated)

DCMI Type Vocabulary

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by Shanghai Library )
• Russian (Word file) - Olga Barysheva and Elina Belonozhka, The National Library of Russia, Saint-Petersburg )

Expressing Dublin Core in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements - Version

• French - maintained by J.J. Solari, Yoyodesign )

Library Application Profile

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by Shanghai Library )

Using Dublin Core - Version

• French - by Guy Teasdale, Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval )

Using Dublin Core - Version

• French - maintained by J.J. Solari, Yoyodesign )
• Latvian - translation by the National Library of Latvia )

A User Guide for Simple Dublin Core - Working Draft -

• Finnish - by Jani Stenvall and Juha Hakala )

DCMI Grammatical Principles, version

• Latvian - translation by the National Library of Latvia )

Other translations

• MARC to Dublin Core Crosswalk in Persian - Translated & Updated by: Sayyed Mahdi Taheri )