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DCMI Multiple Languages Special Interest Group

Interest Group Status:
This interest group is currently active.

Working Group Chair(s): Attention Working Group Participants:

Thomas Baker
Thomas.Baker@gmd.de

Jose Borbinha
jbl@bn.pt

Working Group Charter:
The mission of the Working Group on Dublin Core in Multiple Languages is to coordinate the development of the Dublin Core as a multilingual metadata standard. As of June 1998, our focus is on creating a distributed registry of Dublin Core in multiple languages using the Resource Description Framework (RDF), an emerging standard syntax for expressing metadata schemas on the Web.

Milestones/Deliverables:

Scheduled Milestone Document and Revision Date Editor/Contact Status / History
Working Group Draft Report 1998-10-30 http://purl.org/dc/documents/working_drafts/wd-multilingual-current.htm Thomas Baker
Thomas.Baker@gmd.de
Working Group Draft Report 1998-07-14 http://purl.org/dc/documents/working_drafts/wd-multilingual-19980714.htm Thomas Baker
Thomas.Baker@gmd.de
Working Group Draft Report 1998-06-22 http://purl.org/dc/documents/working_drafts/wd-multilingual-19980622.htm Thomas Baker
Thomas.Baker@gmd.de

Open Issues:

Mailing List: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-international/join.html

Membership: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/names/dc-international/members.html

History:

Information on when this working group was constituted, dates of working group meetings and results from those meetings, etc.

1999 October 26: WG Dublin Core in Multiple Languages Meeting, DC-7 Meeting Report:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-international/2000-01/0000.html

1998 September 23: WG Dublin Core in Multiple Languages Meeting, Crete Meeting Report: http://purl.org/dc/groups/languages/wg-language-mr-19980923.htm

1998 September 6: WG Dublin Core in Multiple Languages Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand Meeting Report: http://purl.org/dc/groups/languages/wg-language-mr-19980906.htm

1998 May 25: WG Dublin Core in Multiple Languages Meeting, Bonn, Germany Meeting Report: http://purl.org/dc/groups/languages/wg-language-mr-19980525.htm

1997 March 3-5: "Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages: Dublin Cores in languages other than English," Report by Thomas Baker from the Fourth Dublin Core Workshop, Canberra:
http://purl.org/dc/groups/languages/wg-language-mr-19970303.htm

Background and Related Resources:

Web-accessible versions of Dublin Core in Multiple Languages
(please let me know if there are others, Thomas Baker Thomas.Baker@gmd.de)
Prototype RDF schema registry http://avalon.ulis.ac.jp:8080/~nagamori/
Arabic http://www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de/~haddouti/DC_arabic.html
Armenian not yet online
Burmese under development
Chinese (Big 5 font) http://dimes.lins.fju.edu.tw/dublin/
Czech http://www.ics.muni.cz/dublin_core/DC-czech-1.1.html
Danish http://www.bs.dk/metadata/english.htm
Dutch http://www.konbib.nl/coop/donor/rapporten/DCsimpleformat.html
Finnish http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/dublin_core/
French http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~vercoust/METADATA/DC-fr.1.1.html
German http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/DOK/metatagd.htm
Greek http://www.ics.forth.gr/~sarantos/dublincore.html
Hungarian under development
Indonesian not yet online
Italian http://www.iccu.sbn.it/dublinco.html
Japanese http://www.dl.ulis.ac.jp/DC/
Khmer under development
Korean http://www.kric.ac.kr/~dc_kor/dc-korean.html
Maori http://www.tki.org.nz/r/maori/pedagogy/dc_elements_m.php
Nepali under development
Norwegian http://www.bibsys.no/meta/dc/dcref.html
Polish Dublin Core Element Set, version 1.1
Dublin Core Qualifiers
Portuguese http://jlb.bn.pt/DC/elementos_dublin_core.htm
Punjabi not yet online
Romanian under development
Russian Dublin Core Element Set, version 1.1
Dublin Core Qualifiers
Spanish http://www.rediris.es/metadata/dublin_core_elements.es.html
Swedish http://www.kb.se/bus/DC/Dc_Sv1_1.htm
Thai http://server.tiac.or.th/dublin.pdf
Turkish http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/DublinCore.html
Ukrainian http://lucl.lucl.kiev.ua/win/metadata.html
 
 
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