Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML become DCMI Recommendation and new XML schemas published

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML is now a DCMI Recommendation. This document considers both simple (unqualified) DC and qualified DC applications. At the same time, a new set of XML schemas is published. These support the encoding of Qualified Dublin Core™ metadata records, including the use of element refinements and encoding schemes, and follow the conventions described in Guidelines for expressing Dublin Core™ in XML.