News from 2009

We are happy to announce that the DCMI Oversight Committee has appointed Mike Teets of OCLC Inc. (Dublin, Ohio, USA) as an independent member of the Committee.

The DCMI Recommendation "Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements" has been revised with a small number of errata and an addendum with new examples.

The DCMI Status Report September 2009 is now available.

The start of DC-2009 to be held 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea is now less than three weeks away. We are still accepting registrations online for the event until 5 October 2009.

DCMI now has a presence on Twitter. There is also a Facebook group for DCMI and a Facebook page for the DC-2009 conference.

The early-bird registration for DC-2009 to be held 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea, is now closed. On-line registration for the event at regular fees will remain open until 5 October.

Today, an updated program for DC-2009, the ninth International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, to be held 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, has been published on the conference Web site.

We are very pleased to announce that Infocom Corporation of Japan has renewed its Platinum Partnership status for another year starting 1 July 2009.

With great sadness we have learned that Rachel Heery, a long-time participant in the Dublin Core™ community and member of the DCMI Advisory Board until her retirement in 2007, passed away on 24 July 2009.

We are pleased to announce that the online registration for DC-2009, the ninth International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, to be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009, is now open.