Dublin Core Elements

 Title | Creator | Date | Subject | Publisher
Type | Description | Contributor | Format | Source
Rights | Identifier | Language | Relation | Coverage

4.12. Language

Label: Language
Element Description: The language of the intellectual content of the resource. Where practical, the content of this field should coincide with RFC 1766 [Tags for the Identification of Languages, http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt]; examples include en, de, es, fi, fr, ja, th, and zh.
Guidelines for creation of content:
Coded or textual information can be represented here. If the content is in more than one language, the element may be repeated.
    Examples
      Language=en
      Language=fr
    OR,
      <META NAME="DC.Language" CONTENT="en;fr">
    OR,
      <META NAME="DC.Language" CONTENT="Primarily English, with some abstracts also in French.">
      <META NAME="DC.Language" CONTENT="en-US">

Qualifiers for DC.Language

    From LC
      SCHEME:
        IETF RFC 1766
        Z39.53
        ISO 639-1
        ISO 639-2/B (after final publication)
      TYPE: Not necessary
    From UK
      Scheme
        Freetext
          A human readable name of the language. This is the default scheme value if the scheme is not explicitly stated.
        Z39.53
          The element value is a three character language code from the Z39.53 coding set for written languages.
        ISO.639
          The element value is a two or three character language code from the ISO 639 standard.
        Computer
          The element value is the name of a computer language.
      Type: None