- dc:creator
- content: name(s) of author(s) or creator(s) of the intellectual content of the publication
- occurrence: mandatory (if a creator is known)
- dc:date
- content: date for publication of the DAISY DTB
- scheme: W3C/ISO8601; recommended syntax: "yyyy-mm-dd"
- occurrence: mandatory
- dc:description
- content: account of content - annotations
- occurrence: optional
- dc:format
- content: code for DAISY DTB format; "Daisy 2.02"
- occurrence: mandatory
- dc:identifier
- content: identifier of the DAISY publication (unique to the publishing organization or group)
- scheme: identifier scheme, if existing
- occurrence: mandatory
- dc:language
- content: language(s) of the content of the publication
- schemes: ISO 639 language code optionally followed by a two letter country code as in ISO 3166. For Sweden: "SV" or "SV-SE", for the United Kingdom: "EN" or "EN-UK" etc.
- occurrence: mandatory
- dc:publisher
- content: publisher of the DAISY DTB.
- occurrence: mandatory
- dc:source
- content: a reference to the print source from which the present resource is derived; use with schema ISBN or schemeless.
- scheme: ISBN or schemeless
- occurrence: optional - recommended
- dc:subject
- content: the topic of the content of the DAISY DTB; keywords or classification codes
- scheme: if existing, "keyword" is default
- occurrence: optional - recommended
- dc:title
- content: title of DTB or publication
- occurrence: mandatory
- ncc:narrator
- content: name of narrator(s) of the DTB; the person or the name of the synthetic voice which narrated the text of the DTB
- occurrence: optional - recommended
- ncc:producer
- content: name of organization/production unit generating the DAISY DTB
- occurrence: optional
- ncc:producedDate
- content: date of first generation of DTB
- scheme: W3C/ISO8601; recommended syntax: "yyyy-mm-dd"
- occurrence: optional
- ncc:revision
- content: integer describing revision number
- occurrence: optional
- ncc:revisionDate
- content: date associated with ncc:revision
- scheme: W3C/ISO8601; recommended syntax: "yyyy-mm-dd"
- occurrence: optional
- ncc:sourceDate
- content: date of publication of the print source. This will usually be the year of the publication of the print book
- scheme: W3C/ISO8601; usually with syntax: "yyyy"
- occurrence: optional - recommended
- ncc:sourceEdition
- content: edition of the print source
- occurrence: optional - recommended
- ncc:sourcePublisher
- content: publisher of print source
- occurrence: optional - recommended
- ncc:sourceRights
- content: information about rights held in and over the print source
- occurrence: optional
- ncc:sourceTitle
- content: the title of the print source; is to be used only if different from dc:title
- occurrence: mandatory (if the titles differ)
In addition to the above definition list, it is allowed to use arbitrary metadata elements to support producer-specific metadata issues. Such meta elements shall carry a "prod:" prefix and shall be ignored by playback systems.