diff --git a/examples/surrogate_dublin_core.xml b/examples/surrogate_dublin_core.xml
index d71058f72..2558b1a62 100644
--- a/examples/surrogate_dublin_core.xml
+++ b/examples/surrogate_dublin_core.xml
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
 
   <record>
-    <dc:title><![CDATA[Alan Smithee]]></dc:title>
-    <dc:identifier>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee</dc:identifier>
-    <dc:description><![CDATA[Der als Filmregisseur oft genannte '''Alan Smithee''' ist ein Anagramm von „The Alias Men“.]]></dc:description>
-    <dc:language>de</dc:language>
-    <dc:date>2009-03-02T11:12:36Z</dc:date> <!-- date is in ISO 8601 -->
+    <dc:Title><![CDATA[Alan Smithee]]></dc:Title>
+    <dc:Identifier>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee</dc:Identifier>
+    <dc:Description><![CDATA[Der als Filmregisseur oft genannte '''Alan Smithee''' ist ein Anagramm von „The Alias Men“.]]></dc:Description>
+    <dc:Language>de</dc:Language>
+    <dc:Date>2009-03-02T11:12:36Z</dc:Date> <!-- date is in ISO 8601 -->
   </record>
 
 </surrogates>
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/crawler/Surrogate.java b/source/de/anomic/crawler/Surrogate.java
index c4653aa39..173083217 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/crawler/Surrogate.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/crawler/Surrogate.java
@@ -63,9 +63,8 @@ public class Surrogate extends HashMap<String, String> {
          */
     
     public Date date() {
-        String d = this.get("dateISO8601");
-        if (d == null) d = this.get("docdatetime");
-        if (d == null) d = this.get("dc:date");
+        String d = this.get("docdatetime");
+        if (d == null) d = this.get("dc:Date");
         if (d == null) return null;
         try {
             return DateFormatter.parseISO8601(d);
@@ -76,7 +75,7 @@ public class Surrogate extends HashMap<String, String> {
     }
     public yacyURL url() {
         String u = this.get("url");
-        if (u == null) u = this.get("dc:identifier");
+        if (u == null) u = this.get("dc:Identifier");
         if (u == null) return null;
         try {
             return new yacyURL(u, null);
@@ -87,26 +86,26 @@ public class Surrogate extends HashMap<String, String> {
     }
     public String language() {
         String l = this.get("language");
-        if (l == null) l = this.get("dc:language");
+        if (l == null) l = this.get("dc:Language");
         if (l == null) return "en"; else return l;
     }
     public String title() {
         String t = this.get("title");
-        if (t == null) t = this.get("dc:title");
+        if (t == null) t = this.get("dc:Title");
         t = stripCDATA(t);
         if (t == null) return "";
         return t;
     }
     public String body() {
         String t = this.get("body");
-        if (t == null) t = this.get("dc:description");
+        if (t == null) t = this.get("dc:Description");
         t = stripCDATA(t);
         if (t == null) return "";
         return t;
     }
     public String[] categories() {
         String t = this.get("categories");
-        if (t == null) this.get("dc:subject");
+        if (t == null) this.get("dc:Subject");
         t = stripCDATA(t);
         if (t == null) return new String[]{};
         return t.split(";");