Considering the Dublin Core Content for Taxonomy Inspiration

Neatly tucked away in the Site Content Types gallery, in the Document Content Types section, is an entry titled the Dublin Core Columns. Spending some time with this content type is a great way to gain insight into a full set of columns that can be used to describe the elements of a document to enable it to fit into an overall taxonomy, or structure.

The Dublin Core metadata element set contains descriptors designed to make it easy for users to easily understand the content described by the metadata elements regardless of the type of content managed. This element set has been widely accepted as documented by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) in their document titled ...

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