DCMI News 2008

2008-04-28, The organizing committee of DC-2008 is pleased to announce two of four keynote speakers for this year's conference: Kurt Mehlhorn (Max Planck Society), and Ute Schwens (German National Library). In addition to this keynotes there will be paper and poster presentations and several open meetings of DCMI Communities, Task Groups and on other topics of interest to the community. Following the Call for Papers, the Program Committee received over 70 submissions for papers, posters and project reports that will be evaluated by 53 reviewers until 15 May 2008.

2008-04-28, The early bird registration for DC-2008 is scheduled to open on 1 June 2008. An individual online registration system will be available on the conference Web site. To find the perfect accommodation for your stay during the conference, we have picked some well-equipped and conveniently located hotels for you. Participants are now welcome to book their accommodation online.

2008-04-28, Siderean Software, Inc., a Los Angeles-based semantic search company, has joined the British Library in stepping forward to assist in funding the DCMI/RDA Task Group. "The efforts of the library community in developing next-generation standards for cataloging metadata has the potential to inform the work of the Semantic Web community in ways that go far beyond its application to libraries," said Bradley Allen, Founder and CTO of Siderean. "Siderean is pleased to be able to help out by providing funding assistance for the DCMI/RDA project." See also information on the DCMI Partnership Program.

2008-04-28, The National Library of Finland, the first organization to join the DCMI Affiliate Program in 2003, has extended its Affiliation until 2011.

2008-04-28, Public Comment on the Working Draft "Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core Application Profiles" is now closed. Comments received will be further discussed on the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list.

2008-04-14, After expiration of the two-week extension of the submission deadline, the Call for Papers for DC-2008 is now closed. A press release (in English and in German) issued by the organization committee of DC-2008 outlines the main aspects of the program. For further information, see the conference Web site.

2008-04-14, The DCMI Directorate and the chairs of the DCMI/RDA Task Group are happy to announce that The British Library has agreed to provide financial support to the activities of the DCMI/RDA Task Group. See also the Activity Sponsor page of the DCMI Partnership Program.

2008-03-31, A further press release (in English and in German) has been issued by the organization committee of DC-2008, the eighth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 22 to 26 September 2008 under the title "Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications". The press release outlines the main aspects of the program. Please note that the deadline for submission of papers has been extended to 13 April 2008. For further information, see the Call for Papers on the conference Web site.

2008-03-31, The DCMI Directorate invites organizations to join the new DCMI Partnership Program. This program is intended for organizations that want to associate themselves with DCMI and provide financial support to the activities of DCMI. There are several levels and options in the program that may be of interest to companies and public organizations. For further information, see the Partnership Program page.

2008-03-31, The March 2008 Status Report is now available, covering the period from August 2007 through March 2008. Read the report...

2008-03-31, The DCMI Directorate has awarded a contract to Karen Coyle to write user-oriented "Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles". The guidelines will provide an overview of recent work on a formal Description Set Profile specification in the context of the Singapore Framework for Dublin Core Application Profiles together with good-practice examples.

2008-03-31, Public Comment will be held on the Working Draft "Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core Application Profiles" (and accompanying XML schema for the XML representation) from 31 March through 28 April 2008. As described in the "Singapore Framework for Dublin Core Application Profiles", this specification offers a simple constraint language for Dublin Core metadata on the basis of the DCMI Abstract Model. Interested members of the public are invited to post comments to the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list, including "[Public Comment]" in the subject line.

2008-02-18, DCMI has issued two calls for tender. We are soliciting offers for the production of Guidelines for implementing application profiles, and for the development of Promotional materials for Affiliates and sponsors. Both calls are open until 29 February 2008.

2008-02-18, The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the Dublin Core Metadata Registry has moved to the University of Tsukuba, Japan, where it will be hosted under a collaborative agreement with the Research Center for Knowledge Communities.

2008-02-18, A set of XML schemas in support of the "Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML" has been updated in light of the January 2008 release of "DCMI Metadata Terms".

2008-02-18, Stefanie Rühle, researcher at Göttingen State and University Library in Germany, has joined the DCMI Usage Board.

2008-02-01, A joint press release was published by the State and University Library Göttingen, Max Planck Digital Library and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative with a further announcement of DC-2008, the eighth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 22 to 26 September 2008 under the title "Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications". The press release highlights the two main themes: Semantic applications supporting integration of information and Social applications supporting communication and collaboration. The press release is available in English and in German.

2008-01-14, A major maintenance update of "DCMI Metadata Terms" and the related RDF schemas has been released with improved definitions and usage comments, differentiation between Syntax Encoding Schemes and Vocabulary Encoding Schemes, and the specification of formal domains and ranges for properties. Domains and ranges specify what kind of described resources and value resources are associated with a given property — e.g., that dcterms:rights refers to a dcterms:RightsStatement — in support of semantic inferencing processes. So as not to affect the conformance of legacy implementations, ranges have been left unspecified for the fifteen properties of the "dc:" namespace (http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/). In order to provide semantically more precise alternatives for Semantic Web applications, ranges have been defined for fifteen like-named properties in the "dcterms:" namespace (http://purl.org/dc/terms/). Following the revised DCMI Abstract Model of June 2007, the new documentation reflects the definition of a Vocabulary Encoding Scheme as an "enumerated set of resources". The full set of changes is detailed in the document "Revisions to DCMI Metadata Terms".

2008-01-14, "Expressing Dublin Core metadata using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)" has been published as a DCMI Recommendation, replacing two legacy documents: "Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML" and "Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in RDF/XML". As discussed in "Notes on DCMI specifications for Dublin Core metadata in RDF", the new, reengineered Recommendation provides a substantially updated RDF expression of Dublin Core metadata on the basis of the DCMI Abstract Model.

2008-01-14, An article in Federal Computer Week, published on 4 January 2008, reports that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the USA has issued three metadata standards that are based on Dublin Core.

2008-01-14, Based on a decision by the DCMI Advisory Board at its meeting in Singapore on 1 September 2007, the DCMI Global Corporate Circle was deactivated in December 2007. In November 2007, a new group was established, the DCMI Knowledge Management Community, that is likely to address issues that should be of interest to corporate users of Dublin Core metadata.

Members of the Global Corporate Circle are encouraged to subscribe to the mailing list of the new Community.