Active on DCMI

DCMI Usage Board

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Usage Board acts as the editorial committee for semantic specifications under the DCMI umbrella. The Usage Board has curated DCMI Metadata Terms since 2001 and serves as the maintenance agency for the international standard ISO 15836. More recently, the Usage Board has taken on responsibility for vocabularies of LRMI (Learning Resource Metadata Innovation), the Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO), and SKOS-Thes.

openWEMI

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The outcomes of the group work are expected to be:

an analysis of existing uses of WEMI which could benefit from an unconstrained vocabulary for those classes
a gathering of issues and questions regarding the possibilities for such a vocabulary
production of an unconstrained WEMI vocabulary with a specific proposal for the DCMI usage board
a repository of documentation and examples

The concept is explained in some detail in a Code4lib Journal article.¹ The work will take place on a dedicated github repository under DCMI² and which has been pre-populated with some documents and issues. There is a mailing list where announcements and meeting events will be distributed.³

Core Cultural Metadata Model IG

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This interest group is intended to discuss the fundamental issues and develop generic data models for metadata to describe those various cultural entities and their digital surrogates archived in digital collections. Discussion will include but not limit itself to the following issues:

DCMI Education Committee

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Chair: Marcia L. Zeng
Co-Chair: Karen M. Wickett

The committee currently has five task groups:

TG1. Metadata Professional Development

Karen Wickett (University of Illinois) - Chair
Inkyung Choi (OCLC) - Tutorials sub-group Chair
Gema Bueno de la Fuente (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Jennifer Campbell-Meier (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Elisa Cerveira (Universidade do Porto)
Prof. Jun-Zhi Jia (Renming University, China)

TG2. Metadata and AI (new)

PIDs in Dublin Core™ Working Group

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Resources

Email discussion list (Google Group) (pids-in-dublin-core@googlegroups.com)
A GitHub repository containing work in progress, including specifically:
- original position paper, Using Persistent Identifiers with Literals in Dublin Core-based metadata in XML
- requirements and user stories
- report from a session at DCMI 2018 in Porto which discussed the requirements and considered some candidate recommendations]

DCMI Architecture Forum

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The Architecture Forum is where interested participants in the DCMI community can raise issues related to data models, emerging technologies, or best practices for expressing, encoding, or using metadata in the Dublin Core™ style. Discussions there can occasionally lead to the formation of an ad-hoc task group for addressing a specific issue or developing a technical specification.

DCMI/NKOS Interest Group

Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

See the Wiki...

The term knowledge organization system (KOS) is intended to encompass all types of schemes for organizing information and promoting knowledge management. Different families of knowledge organization systems, including thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading systems, and taxonomies are widely recognized and applied in both modern and traditional information systems. Various types of KOS have been increasingly embodied as (Web) services to facilitate resource discovery and retrieval. Different agents, services, and applications need to communicate about KOS data in the form of transferring, exchange, transformation, mediation, migration, and integration. The information about a KOS, including its data model, type, protocol, status, responsible body, available format, affectivity, and other descriptive data are very important to terminology registries, service registries, vocabulary users (machine or human), and retrieval systems. At a minimum level, metadata for KOS resources will describe specific characteristics of a KOS, facilitate the discovery of KOS resources, assist in the evaluation of such resources for a particular application or use, and facilitate sharing, reusing, and collaboration of the KOS resources.

LRMI Working Group

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The LRMI™ Working Group is charged with defining and executing DCMI work on the LRMI family of metadata specifications and the related activities necessary to their stewardship and adoption.

Application Profiles Working Group

Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Links

2019-04-17 announcement
application-profiles-ig mailing list archive
application-profiles-ig mailing list information - links, joining instructions
Application Profiles IG Github repo

Prior work

DCMI Governing Board

Fri, 06 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000