The Dublin Core schema provides a set of commonly used XMP properties.
Xmp.dc.<Property>
  http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/dc| Property | Label | Value type | Exiv2 type | Category | Description | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| contributor | Contributor | bag ProperName | XmpBag | External | Contributors to the resource (other than the authors). | 
| coverage | Coverage | Text | XmpText | External | The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant. | 
| creator | Creator | seq ProperName | XmpSeq | External | The authors of the resource (listed in order of precedence, if significant). | 
| date | Date | seq Date | XmpSeq | External | Date(s) that something interesting happened to the resource. | 
| description | Description | Lang Alt | LangAlt | External | A textual description of the content of the resource. Multiple values may be present for different languages. | 
| format | Format | MIMEType | XmpText | Internal | The file format used when saving the resource. Tools and applications should set this property to the save format of the data. It may include appropriate qualifiers. | 
| identifier | Identifier | Text | XmpText | External | Unique identifier of the resource. Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system. | 
| language | Language | bag Locale | XmpBag | Internal | An unordered array specifying the languages used in the resource. | 
| publisher | Publisher | bag ProperName | XmpBag | External | An entity responsible for making the resource available. Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Publisher should be used to indicate the entity. | 
| relation | Relation | bag Text | XmpBag | Internal | Relationships to other documents. Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system. | 
| rights | Rights | Lang Alt | LangAlt | External | Informal rights statement, selected by language. Typically, rights information includes a statement about various property rights associated with the resource, including intellectual property rights. | 
| source | Source | Text | XmpText | External | Unique identifier of the work from which this resource was derived. | 
| subject | Subject | bag Text | XmpBag | External | An unordered array of descriptive phrases or keywords that specify the topic of the content of the resource. | 
| title | Title | Lang Alt | LangAlt | External | The title of the document, or the name given to the resource. Typically, it will be a name by which the resource is formally known. | 
| type | Type | bag open Choice | XmpBag | External | A document type; for example, novel, poem, or working paper. |