What in the world are “Dubin Core files”? 

I’m teaching an online XML class to library school graduate students. The 
previous instructors of the class have asked the students to create “Dubin Core 
files” used to describe the content of things like TEI files. For the life of 
me, I can not figure out what a Dublin Core file is. To my mind, Dubin Core is 
all about a set of 15 (or so) names/labels used to more or less describe stuff. 
But people speak as if there is a such a thing as a Dublin Core (XML) file.
Do Dublin Core files exist, and if so, then can somebody show me one? Put 
another way, can you point me to a DTD or schema denoting Dublin Core XML? The 
closest I can come is the standard/default oai_dc description of an OAI-PMH 
item.

P.S. Showing me how to incorporate Dublin Core into HTML doesn’t count. Such 
are not Dublin Core files as much as they are HTML files.

— 
Eric Lease Morgan
Artist- and Librarian-At-Large

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