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Property: created

_The date, or date and time, on which the content of an information resource is created or compiled. _

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When used on a metadata record The date and time on which an information resource is made available through the catalogue.

URI: dct:created

Obligation and Cardinality

The table below details the classes which use this property and the conditions of its use.

Class Range Obligation Cardinality
CataloguedResource Date Optional One
DataService Date Optional One
Dataset Date Optional One

Usage Notes

Purpose

The use of created helps users assess the relevance of the content to their information needs, and allows users to distinguish between when the content of an information resource was created or compiled and when the resource was publicly released.

When used for a catalogue record

Use of created allows users to distinguish between the date a resource was published and the date it was included in the Government Data Catalogue. It also allows users to locate resources recently added to the Government Data Catalogue.

Do not confuse with

  • created applied to a catalogue record: the date the resource was first added to the Government Data Catalogue.

  • issued: the date the resource was originally published or otherwise made publicly available for the first time, which may have been prior to its inclusion in the catalogue.

When used for a catalogue record

created applied to a data asset: the date the intellectual content of the resource was completed or compiled in the form in which it was approved for and eventually released.

issued: the date a resource was originally published or otherwise made publicly available for the first time. Date Issued and Date Added to Catalogue might be, but do not have to be, the same date.

modified: the date on which the content of a resource was changed, or when a new issue of a serial resource was added to the metadata record.

Guidelines

Systems tend to identify the “date created” of a resource as the date on which it is captured into a repository. The actual creation of a resource and its capture frequently do take place on the same date, but this is not always the case, for example:

  • Disseminating a resource sometime after its date created;

  • Capturing metadata about a resource into a repository that does not contain the resources itself.

created should reflect the date the intellectual content of the resource was completed or compiled in the form in which it was eventually released.

Be as specific as possible, including month and day as well as year, if known.

Some scenarios might be:

  • A dataset compiled in April 2015 published on July 2015 (created is 2015-04);

  • A report completed in September 2015 but publicly released in January 2016 (created is 2015-09);

When used for a catalogue record

created will be the date the metadata record was first “published” within the Government Data Catalogue environment.

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://github.com/co-cddo/ukgov-metadata-exchange-model/blob/main/src/model/uk_cross_government_metadata_exchange_model.yaml

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