{"id":2905742,"date":"2025-11-18T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2905742"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:12:08","slug":"simplifying-metadata-introducing-a-new-style-dublin-core","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/data-management\/simplifying-metadata-introducing-a-new-style-dublin-core","title":{"rendered":"Simplifying metadata: Introducing a new style, Dublin Core+"},"author":340892,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101,23851],"tags":[27771,779342],"industry":[],"product":[36571,36551],"class_list":["post-2905742","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-data-management","tag-metadata","tag-whats-new-june-2025","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":340892,"user_firstname":"Laura","user_lastname":"Busolo","nickname":"Laura Busolo","user_nicename":"lbusolo","display_name":"Laura Busolo","user_email":"LBusolo@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2023-06-17 00:33:04","user_description":"Laura is a native Kenyan, based in California who loves exploring culture and most-things art. With years of experience in the world of geospatial technology, she currently works as a product engineer at Esri, collaborating across teams to help users manage their content in ArcGIS Online.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"Introducing a new metadata style known as Dublin Core+. This streamlined approach to metadata is designed to help you get started with ease.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"

UPDATE:<\/strong> Dublin Core+ is now available in ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0.<\/p>\n","image_reference":false,"layout":"standard","image_reference_figure":"","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Providing detailed information about an item empowers viewers to make informed decisions, enhances comprehension, and improves item discoverability. ArcGIS supports a variety of metadata styles<\/a>, enabling organizations to choose one that best fits their members for authoring metadata.<\/p>\n

With the June 2025 update of ArcGIS Online, we introduced Dublin Core+, Esri’s default metadata style. Dublin Core+ should not be confused with Dublin Core. However, it enables editing and viewing metadata following the Dublin Core\u2122 Metadata Initiative (DCMI) guidelines. Additionally, it allows for validation using the RDF and XML schemas<\/a> provided on the DCMI website.<\/p>\n

How do I start?<\/h2>\n

Getting your organization to add items and follow specific metadata guidelines can be challenging, especially when you don\u2019t know where to start. Choose a straightforward approach that still meets a recognized metadata standard, and you\u2019ll set yourself up for success. Dublin Core+ is a great place to start. It\u2019s simple, practical, and supports consistent, high\u2011quality metadata. When you manage geospatial data, metadata isn\u2019t just an administrative detail, it\u2019s the backbone of discoverability, usability, and long-term value for everyone who accesses your content. Yet many organizations delay taking action, often feeling overwhelmed by the complexity of full-scale standards. That\u2019s where Dublin Core+ comes in. It offers a streamlined set of metadata elements within a well-structured framework that\u2019s easy to understand and quick to implement. By adopting Dublin Core+, you equip your organization with a clear, manageable way to describe content, without getting lost in technical complexity.<\/p>\n

To begin, administrators can enable and configure metadata settings<\/a> for their organization. Then select Dublin Core+ as the organization’s metadata style. This allows item owners to edit metadata using this style directly from the item page.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2942388,"id":2942388,"title":"Metadata styles - Dcplus","filename":"Metadata-styles-Dcplus.png","filesize":105340,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Metadata-styles-Dcplus.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/data-management\/simplifying-metadata-introducing-a-new-style-dublin-core\/metadata-styles-dcplus","alt":"","author":"340892","description":"","caption":"Enable metadata editing on the item pages","name":"metadata-styles-dcplus","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2905742,"date":"2025-10-08 22:13:37","modified":"2025-10-10 00:07:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1576,"height":732,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Metadata-styles-Dcplus-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Metadata-styles-Dcplus.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":216,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Metadata-styles-Dcplus.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":357,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Metadata-styles-Dcplus.png","large-width":1576,"large-height":732,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Metadata-styles-Dcplus-1536x713.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":713,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Metadata-styles-Dcplus.png","2048x2048-width":1576,"2048x2048-height":732,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Metadata-styles-Dcplus-826x384.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":384,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Metadata-styles-Dcplus.png","wide_image-width":1576,"wide_image-height":732}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Each metadata style has numerous fields, each with specific required elements. Although organizations may have distinct metadata needs, we introduced Dublin Core+ as a simplified metadata style. This style features a streamlined set of essential elements for populating item metadata.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2942566,"id":2942566,"title":"dcplus","filename":"dcplus2.gif","filesize":21933530,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dcplus2.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/data-management\/simplifying-metadata-introducing-a-new-style-dublin-core\/dcplus2","alt":"","author":"340892","description":"","caption":"Editing metadata using Dublin Core+","name":"dcplus2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2905742,"date":"2025-10-10 00:06:19","modified":"2025-10-10 00:08:05","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1436,"height":932,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dcplus2-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dcplus2.gif","medium-width":402,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dcplus2.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":498,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dcplus2.gif","large-width":1436,"large-height":932,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dcplus2.gif","1536x1536-width":1436,"1536x1536-height":932,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dcplus2.gif","2048x2048-width":1436,"2048x2048-height":932,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dcplus2-716x465.gif","card_image-width":716,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dcplus2.gif","wide_image-width":1436,"wide_image-height":932}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Adopting Dublin Core+<\/h2>\n

Leveraging Dublin Core+ as a metadata style, can significantly enhance your organization\u2019s workflows. It not only supports compliance but also fosters efficiency. This supports better information management overall. Lets briefly take a look at some key benefits for using it when authoring metadata:<\/p>\n