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Originally Posted by crutledge
I was under the impression that the date of publication was the date the eBook was published.
Am I wrong?
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TL;DR: You are right.
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (shorthand: DC, or DCMI) is a standardized method of describing metadata. In this case, there are two works that could be described by the DC data: the original and the E-Book, with the latter being a derivative work of the former.
The DCMI is following a "one-to-one rule". This rule means that an any metadata should describe the object it accompanies, and just that object. A different object shall have its own metadata. The DC Usage Guide specifically notes on the
created property:
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Note that the "one-to-one" rule requires that the creation date be that of the resource being described, not any early version from which the current resource is derived.
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There are DC properties available that can specify such a relation between two works (specifically
isFormatOf and
isVersionOf), but their specification is lacking detail, and those properties are not widely supported (as far as I can see).
So it is my interpretation of the DC standard, that an E-Book version of an old document should have a "creation" date of 2011, and a "published"/"issued" date of 2011, if it is actually published.