title

title.alternate

creator.employee

creator.organization

creator.code

creator.contract

creator.missionsProjects

creator.instrument

contributor.employee

contributor.organization

contributor.code

contributor.contract

contributor.missionsProjects

contributor.instrument

subject.employee

subject.organization

subject.missionsProjects

subject.disciplines

subject.instrument

subject.functions

subject.industries

subject.uncontrolled

description

date.available

publisher.organization

type.information

format.medium

format.extent

identifier

source

language

relation.hasVersion

coverage.spatial

coverage.chronology

coverage.project phase

rights

audience

The Title element contains the canonical name within the archive of the work of which the Identifier identifies one expression.

The Title.alternate element contains other ways of identifying the work of which the identifier identifies one expression than that given in the Title element.

The Creator element contains the name of a creator or developer of the work of which the identifier identifies one expression.

The Creator.Code element contains a Goddard organizational code under which the expression originated in whole or in part.

The Creator.Contract element contains a value that identifies the contract under which the expression originated in whole or in part.

The Creator.Project element contains a value that identifies the project under which the expression originated in whole or in part.

The Creator.Organization element contains a value that identifies the organization under whose auspices the expression was produced in whole or in part.

The Creator.Instrument element contains a value that identifies a piece of equipment to which the expression pertains.

The Contributor element contains the name of a person who has participated in an effort that has resulted in the expression identified by the Identifier element, but did not necessarily participate in the creation of the work of which it is an expression.

The Subject.Uncontrolled element contains a characterization of the subject matter of the work of which the Identifier element specifies one expression. The terms allowed in this element are uncontrolled.

The Subject.Controlled element contains terms that characterize the subject of the expression specified in the Identifier element and that are drawn from a controlled vocabulary.

The Description element contains information useful in evaluating the relevance of the expression to the user's need. This information includes “abstracts, table(s) of contents, reference to a graphical representation of content or a free-text account of the content”.

The simple Date element is used in the Goddard Core to identify the date at which the particular expression referred to by the Identifier was first made widely available in some manifestation.

The Type element contains an indication of the intellectual genre of the work of which the object specified in the Identifier element is an expression, taken from a taxonomy of content types.

The Format.medium element contains the name(s) of the medium(s) on which items of the expression specified by the Identifier element exist.

The Identifier element contains a persistent identifier that resolves to physical and/or virtual locations of all known items of a unique expression.

Each Relation.hasVersion element contains persistent identifiers each of which resolves to physical and/or virtual locations of all known items of an expression that is derived from the same work as the expression specified in the Identifier element.

The Rights element contains a formal statement of copyright and access controls that apply to the expression identified in the Identifier element. These do not include idiosyncratic restrictions imposed by individual repositories in which manifestations of the expression may exist.

The Coverage.Temporal element specifies a project phase to which the content of the object is relevant.

The Coverage.Spatial element specifies an area covered by the content of the object