com.hp.hpl.jena.vocabulary
Class DCTypes

java.lang.Object
  com.hp.hpl.jena.vocabulary.DCTypes

public class DCTypes
extends java.lang.Object

Vocabulary definitions from vocabularies/dublin-core_types.xml

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Field Summary

static Resource	Collection A collection is an aggregation of items.
static Resource	Dataset A dataset is information encoded in a defined structure (for example, lists, tables, and databases), intended to be useful for direct machine processing.
static Resource	Event An event is a non-persistent, time-based occurrence.
static Resource	Image An image is a primarily symbolic visual representation other than text.
static Resource	InteractiveResource An interactive resource is a resource which requires interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced.
static Resource	NAMESPACE The namespace of the vocabalary as a resource
static java.lang.String	NS The namespace of the vocabalary as a string ("http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/")
static Resource	PhysicalObject An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance.
static Resource	Service A service is a system that provides one or more functions of value to the end-user.
static Resource	Software Software is a computer program in source or compiled form which may be available for installation non-transiently on another machine.
static Resource	Sound A sound is a resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio.
static Resource	Text A text is a resource whose content is primarily words for reading.

Constructor Summary

DCTypes()

Method Summary

static java.lang.String

getURI() The namespace of the vocabalary as a string

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

NS

public static final java.lang.String NS

The namespace of the vocabalary as a string ("http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/")

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Constant Field Values

NAMESPACE

public static final Resource NAMESPACE

The namespace of the vocabalary as a resource

Collection

public static final Resource Collection

A collection is an aggregation of items. The term collection means that the resource is described as a group; its parts may be separately described and navigated.

Dataset

public static final Resource Dataset

A dataset is information encoded in a defined structure (for example, lists, tables, and databases), intended to be useful for direct machine processing.

Event

public static final Resource Event

An event is a non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, responsible agents, and links to related events and resources. The resource of type event may not be retrievable if the described instantiation has expired or is yet to occur. Examples - exhibition, web-cast, conference, workshop, open-day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea-party, conflagration.

Image

public static final Resource Image

An image is a primarily symbolic visual representation other than text. For example - images and photographs of physical objects, paintings, prints, drawings, other images and graphics, animations and moving pictures, film, diagrams, maps, musical notation. Note that image may include both electronic and physical representations.

InteractiveResource

public static final Resource InteractiveResource

An interactive resource is a resource which requires interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced. For example - forms on web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, virtual reality.

Service

public static final Resource Service

A service is a system that provides one or more functions of value to the end-user. Examples include: a photocopying service, a banking service, an authentication service, interlibrary loans, a Z39.50 or Web server.

Software

public static final Resource Software

Software is a computer program in source or compiled form which may be available for installation non-transiently on another machine. For software which exists only to create an interactive environment, use interactive instead.

Sound

public static final Resource Sound

A sound is a resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. For example - a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds.

Text

public static final Resource Text

A text is a resource whose content is primarily words for reading. For example - books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.

PhysicalObject

public static final Resource PhysicalObject

An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. For example -- a computer, the great pyramid, a sculpture. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these things should use Image, Text or one of the other types.

Constructor Detail

DCTypes

public DCTypes()

Method Detail

getURI

public static java.lang.String getURI()

The namespace of the vocabalary as a string

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NS