Dublin Core is still dead

– This article aims to update an earlier article by the same author published in Library Hi Tech News in 2004 and analyses the failure of the Dublin Core metadata standard.

– The article is a commentary.

– The article finds that the Dublin Core metadata standard is moribund and that a newer, competing standard has rendered it essentially useless.

– The paper updates Dublin Core’s increasing obsolescence and will help librarians understand the standard’s rapid rise and slow fall.