News from 2010

Tom Baker and Makx Dekkers will be presenting a Webinar on 25 August 2010 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. US Eastern Time (UTC 17:00-18:30) under the title "Dublin Core: The Road from Metadata Formats to Linked Data".

A new DCMI Task Group has been established on the issue of Metadata Provenance. The group aims to define an application profile that allows for making assertions about description statements or description sets, creating a shared model of the data elements required to describe an aggregation of metadata statements in order to collectively import, access, use and publish facts about the quality, rights, timeliness, data source type, trust situation, etc.

The organizing committee of DC-2010, the tenth International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 20-22 October 2010, has published the preliminary program for the event.

The organising committee of DC-2010, the tenth International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 20-22 October 2010, is pleased to announce that Stu Weibel of OCLC and Mike Bergman of Structured Dynamics LLC have agreed to be keynote speakers at the conference.

Documentation for DCMI Metadata Terms is currently published as a Web document and as an RDF schema to which term URIs, such as http://purl.

The deadline for submissions for DC-2010, the tenth International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 20-22 October 2010, passed on 9 April.

We are welcoming Paul Walk, deputy director of UKOLN, University of Bath, as a member of the DCMI Advisory Board.

The DCMI Managing Director has published the semestral March 2010 DCMI Status Report.

DCMI has become a co-sponsor for Balisage, the annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information, to be held in Montral, Canada, 3-6 August 2010.

The Organizing Committee for DC-2010 is happy to announce that the deadline for submissions for DC-2010, to be held 20-22 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, has been extended to 9 April 2010.