Work Structure

DCMI Work Structure

More information about the operation of the groups listed below can be found in the document describing the operational aspects of DCMI Work structure: Communities and Task Groups.

DCMI Architecture Forum

The objectives of the Architecture Forum are to discuss and develop a model, strategy and roadmap for the practical deployment of Dublin Core metadata using mainstream Web technologies.

Active DCMI Communities

DCMI Communities are interest groups that bring together people interested in a specific topic related to Dublin Core metadata or metadata best practices in a particular domain. DCMI Communities are moderated by one or two moderators. They have a a mailing list for discussion and exchange of information. Participation in a DCMI Community is open for anybody who subscribes to the open mailing list.

Note: "Latest post" information is based on a snapshot taken on the last day of the previous month.

Accessibility Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/access/
Moderator:	Liddy Nevile
Status:	Active (Latest post: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 05:13:51 +0100)
Established:	2001-10-25
Charter:	The DCMI Accessibility Community is a forum for individuals and organizations involved in implementing Dublin Core in a context of accessibility, with the objective to enhance the matching of personal needs to resources through the use of Dublin Core metadata.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-accessibility&A=1
Forum Archive	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-accessibility.html
Community wiki:	http://dublincore.org/accessibilitywiki

Asia Pacific Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/asiapac/
Moderator:	Henry Hang Lee Lam
Moderator:	Akira Miyazawa
Status:	Active (Latest post: New community)
Established:	2012-09-03
Last Update:	--
Charter:	The objective of DCMI-AsiaPac is to build a strong DCMI metadata community in the Asia Pacific region through regular discussion of metadata matters of common concern, advancement of regional work agendas, planning of regional activities and further development of metadata expertise among participants and in the region.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-asiapac&A=1
Forum Archive	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-asiapac.html

Education Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/education/
Moderator:	Diane Hillmann Metadata Management Associates U.S.A.
Status:	Active (Latest post: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:10:52 +0000)
Established:	1999-08-09
Rechartered:	2006-11-10
Charter:	The DCMI Education Community is a forum for individuals and organizations involved in implementing Dublin Core and other learning resource metadata in the education domain. The objective of the Community is to promote interoperability within the domain through the use of standard metadata and consensus good practices.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-education&A=1
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-EDUCATION.html
Community Wiki:	http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/

Government Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/government/
Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/government
Moderator:	Marie-Claude Côté Canada
Moderator:	John Roberts Archives New Zealand
Moderator:	Hans Overbeek Netherlands
Status:	Active (Latest post: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 23:23:03 +0100)
Established:	1999-10-25
Charter:	The DC-Government community is a forum for individuals and organizations involved in implementing Dublin Core metadata in a context of government agencies and International Governmental Organizations (IGO's), with the objective to promote the application of Dublin Core metadata in that context.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-government&A=1
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-GOVERNMENT.html

Kernel Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/kernel/
Moderator:	John Kunze California Digital Library
Status:	Active (Latest post: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:59:24 -0700)
Established:	2006-12-18
Charter:	The DCMI Kernel Metadata Community is a forum for individuals and organizations interested in very lightweight representations of Dublin Core metadata. Such representations attempt to maximize utility and minimize cost of creation, maintenance, and exchange of Dublin Core and other metadata standards that interoperate with it. A specific sub-goal of the DCMI Kernel Metadata Community is to provide a place to discuss issues that arise in relation to the DC Kernel Application Profile.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=dc-kernel&A=1
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-KERNEL.html
Community Wiki	http://dublincore.org/kernelwiki/

Knowledge Management Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/km/
Moderator:	Johannes Keizer FAO - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Italy
Status:	Active (Latest post: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:25:46 +0000) (Forum closed: 4 Dec 2013)
Established:	2007-11-05
Last Update:	2007-10-29
Charter:	The DCMI Knowledge Management Community is a forum for individuals and organisations with an interest in the application and use of the Dublin Core standard in knowledge management.
Join/Leave Forum:	Forum closed to new members 4 Dec 2013
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-KM.html

Libraries Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/libraries/
Moderator:	Sarah Hartmann Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany
Moderator:	Stefanie Rühle Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB), Germany
Status:	Active (Latest post: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:04:58 +0000)
Established:	2006-12-18
Charter:	The DCMI Library Community is a forum for individuals and organisations in the library domain to exchange information and experience about the use of Dublin Core metadata in a library context and to encourage best practice. More specifically, it provides a forum for discussion of issues related to the DC Library Application Profile.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-libraries&A=1
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-LIBRARIES.html
Community Wiki:	http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/LibrariesWiki

Localization & Internationalization Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/languages/
Moderator:	Shigeo Sugimoto University of Library and Information Science Tsukuba
Moderator:	Karen Rollitt National Library of New Zealand - Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa
Status:	Active (Latest post: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 11:17:16 +0200)
Established:	1997-10-08
Charter:	The DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community is a forum for individuals and organizations to share information and exchange ideas on the use of Dublin Core in their local or domain-specific applications with the global community. It also provides a forum for promoting interoperability and discussion on any issues arising from or relating to the use of DC in a variety of languages and cultures.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-international&A=1
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-INTERNATIONAL.html

Preservation Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/preservation
Moderator:	Raju Buddharaju National Library Board, Singapore
Moderator:	Andrew Wilson Queensland State Archives, Australia
Status:	Active (Latest post: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:34:56 +0000)
Established:	2003-10-01
Charter:	The DCMI Preservation Community is a forum for individuals and organisations involved in implementing Dublin Core metadata in a context of long-term digital preservation, with the objective to promote the application of Dublin Core in that context.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-preservation&A=1
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-preservation.html

Registry Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/registry
Moderators:	Jon Phipps JES & Co., USA
	Emma Tonkin UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
	Corey A. Harper New York University Libraries, USA
Status:	Active (Latest post: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 12:52:51 +0100)
Established:	1999-12-15
Charter:	The DCMI Registry Community Group is a forum for service providers and developers of both metadata schema registries and controlled vocabulary registries to exchange information and experience. The specific goals of this group are To foster a common approach to Use of data models and standards Handling multi-lingual vocabularies Sharing and exchanging registry data Vocabulary mapping To promote interaction between affiliated registries
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-registry&A=1>
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-REGISTRY.html

Science & Metadata Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/scidata/
Moderators:	Alex Ball UKOLN Jane Greenberg SILS/MRC UNC Jian Qin SIS/Syracuse
Status:	Active (Latest post: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:04:46 +0000)
Established:	2009-01-12
Charter:	The DCMI Science and Metadata Community is a forum for individuals and organizations to exchange information and knowledge about metadata describing scientific data (data methodologically collected for research, analysis, tracking, forecasting, and other uses). The Community focuses on metadata challenges specific to scientific data curation, and solutions that will benefit from the architecture and global reach of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-science&A=1
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-SCIENCE.html
Community Wiki:	http://purl.org/dc/science

Social Tagging Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/social-tagging/
Moderator:	Eva Méndez Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Moderator:	Ana Alice Baptista Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Status:	Active (Latest post: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:09:17 +0100)
Established:	2006-10-06
Charter:	The DCMI Social Tagging Community is a forum for individuals and organizations involved in implementing Dublin Core with an interest in the practice of tagging and the relationship between conventional Dublin Core metadata and practices and social tagging.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-social-tagging&A=1
Forum Archive	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-SOCIAL-TAGGING.html
Community Wiki	http://dublincore.org/taggingwiki/

Tools Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/tools/
Moderator:	Seth van Hooland Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Status:	Active (Latest post: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:04:12 +0100)
Established:	2001-03-06
Charter:	The DCMI Tools Community is a forum for individuals and organizations involved in the development and usage of tools and applications based on Dublin Core Metadata or other metadata standards that interoperate with and enhance functionality of the Dublin Core. The objective of the Community is to facilitate the usage and development of applications and functions based on open standards. The DCMI Tools Community provides a forum for two classes of users: tool developers and individuals interested in using tools.
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-tools&A=1
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-TOOLS.html

Vocabulary Management Community

Charter Page:	http://dublincore.org/groups/vocabulary-management
Interim Moderator:	Diane Hillmann Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
Status:	Active (Latest post: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:59:21 +0000)
Established:	2011-10-20
Charter:	The DCMI Vocabulary Management Community is a forum and collaboration space for those interested in defining and documenting best practices for vocabularies, providing guidance for new practitioners, and promoting responsible change management. In addition, the Community will address design and quality issues in vocabularies and mappings in a modern Semantic Web environment..
Join/Leave Forum:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=dc-vocabulary&A=1
Forum Archive:	http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-VOCABULARY.html
Community Wiki	http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Vocabulary_Management_Community

Active DCMI Task Groups

DCMI Task Groups are established around a specific set of activities leading to a set of deliverables. Task groups are led by one or two Task Group leaders and consist of a group of people who commit to help perform the defined tasks. Task Groups may have a Web page, a Wiki and a mailing list. Anybody can ask for participation in a Task Group; the Task Group leaders are responsible for assigning tasks to the members.

Abstract Model Review:	http://dublincore.org/groups/dcam-review/
Bibliographic Metadata:	http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Bibliographic_Metadata_Task_Group# (formerly DCMI/RDA Task Group)
Cultural Heritage Metadata:	http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Cultural_Heritage_Metadata_Task_Group
Education Application Profile:	http://dublincore.org/moinmoin-wiki-archive/educationwiki/pages/Application_20Profile_20Scope.html
Kernel:	http://dublincore.org/kernelwiki/
Libraries Application Profile:	http://dublincore.org/librarieswiki/
Metadata Provenance:	http://dublincore.org/groups/provenance/ http://wiki.bib.uni-mannheim.de/dc-provenance
NKOS:	http://dublincore.org/groups/nkos/ http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_NKOS_Task_Group
Registry:	http://wiki.metadataregistry.org/DCMI_Registry_Community#DCMI_Registry_Community_Project
Schema.org Alignment:	http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Schema.org_Alignment
Translation:	http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Translation_Task_Group
User Documentation:	http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/User_Documentation (merger of DCMI User Guide Task Group and DCMI Glossary Task Group)
DCMI Vocabulary Management System:	http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Vocabulary_Management_System_Task_Group