CIA Taxonomy and Metadata Design 2

Question 1

Which metadata schema uses fifteen core elements—including Title, Creator, and Subject—as a baseline for resource description across disciplines?

Accepted Answer

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

Answer

Dublin Core defines 15 simple, widely interoperable elements for describing digital and physical resources.

Question 2

A controlled vocabulary that expresses equivalent, broader, narrower, and related term relationships between concepts is formally called a:

Accepted Answer

Thesaurus

Answer

A thesaurus explicitly maps USE/UF (equivalence), BT/NT (hierarchical), and RT (associative) relationships between terms.

Question 3

When a single concept node can appear under multiple parent nodes in a taxonomy, this is known as:

Accepted Answer

Polyhierarchy

Answer

Polyhierarchy allows nodes to have more than one parent, reflecting that concepts can legitimately belong to multiple categories.

Question 4

An organization wants metadata that describes other metadata—such as who created a metadata record and when. This is best termed:

Accepted Answer

Meta-metadata

Answer

Meta-metadata (or provenance metadata) describes the metadata record itself, including its creator, creation date, and schema version.

Question 5

In the SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) model, the property skos:narrower is the inverse of:

Accepted Answer

skos:broader

Answer

skos:narrower and skos:broader are inverse properties representing hierarchical relationships in SKOS concept schemes.

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