diff --git a/src/extractors/dublincoreextractor.h b/src/extractors/dublincoreextractor.h
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+/*
+    Helper class to extract XML encoded Dublin Core metadata
+
+    Copyright (C) 2018  Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
+
+    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+    Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+*/
+
+
+#ifndef DUBLINCORE_EXTRACTOR_H
+#define DUBLINCORE_EXTRACTOR_H
+
+#include <QDomNode>
+
+namespace KFileMetaData
+{
+
+class ExtractionResult;
+
+class DublinCoreExtractor
+{
+public:
+    /**
+      * Extract DC metadata from an XML fragment
+      *
+      * Prerequsites:
+      * - DC element nodes are immediate children to \p fragment
+      * - The \c QDomDocument has been parsed with enabled namespaceProcessing
+      *
+      * \sa QDomDocument::setContent
+      */
+    static void extract(ExtractionResult* result, const QDomNode& fragment);
+
+};
+
+} // namespace KFileMetaData
+
+#endif // DUBLINCORE_EXTRACTOR_H
+
diff --git a/src/extractors/dublincoreextractor.cpp b/src/extractors/dublincoreextractor.cpp
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+/*
+    Helper class to extract XML encoded Dublin Core metadata
+
+    Copyright (C) 2018  Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
+
+    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+    Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+*/
+
+#include "dublincoreextractor.h"
+#include "extractionresult.h"
+
+namespace {
+
+inline QString dcNS()      { return QStringLiteral("http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"); }
+inline QString dctermsNS() { return QStringLiteral("http://purl.org/dc/terms/"); }
+
+}
+
+namespace KFileMetaData
+{
+
+void DublinCoreExtractor::extract(ExtractionResult* result, const QDomNode& fragment)
+{
+    QDomElement e = fragment.firstChildElement();
+
+    while (!e.isNull()) {
+        const QString namespaceURI = e.namespaceURI();
+        const QString localName = e.localName();
+
+        // Dublin Core
+        // According to http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/, the
+        // properties should be treated the same regardless if
+        // used in the legacy DCES or DCMI-TERMS variant
+        if (namespaceURI == dcNS() || namespaceURI == dctermsNS()) {
+            if (localName == QLatin1String("description")) {
+                result->add(Property::Comment, e.text());
+            } else if (localName == QLatin1String("subject")) {
+                result->add(Property::Subject, e.text());
+            } else if (localName == QLatin1String("title")) {
+                result->add(Property::Title, e.text());
+            } else if (localName == QLatin1String("creator")) {
+                result->add(Property::Author, e.text());
+            } else if (localName == QLatin1String("language")) {
+                result->add(Property::Language, e.text());
+            }
+        }
+        e = e.nextSiblingElement();
+    }
+}
+
+} // namespace KFileMetaData