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DCMI Date Working Group

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History

The Date Working Group was constituted following the Helsinki Dublin Core Metadata Workshop (DC-5) of October, 1997 and deactivated 2000-10-06 upon completion of its original charge. The Date Working Group was reactivated following the 2003 Dublin Core Conference (DC-2003) of October, 2003.

Related Work

• IETF Calendaring and Scheduling (calsch) Working Group
• The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium
• microformats: hCalendar
• RDF calendar list
• Yahoo ISO8601 discussion group

Resources

Selected date and time notation standards:

• Numeric representation of Dates and Time (ISO 8601)
• Wikipedia entry: "ISO 8601"
• W3C Date and Time Formats [W3C-DTF]
• Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps [RFC 3339]

• XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition: dateTime

  • See also: XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes: J.1.3 Date/time Datatypes

• DCMI Period Encoding Scheme

• Representation of dates practice from: RLG's Best Practice Guidelines for EAD (see p.5 "Normalization of dates")

• Representation of dates practice from: Cataloging Cultural Works [Ch. 4, 28 Feb. 2005 draft] ; Cataloging Cultural Works (2006)

• MARC 21 bibliographic 008 field date representation practice

• TEMPER (TEMPoral Enumerated Ranges) (Internet-Draft[expired])

• Liberty Date Recommendation

• Recordkeeping Metadata Schema (RKMS) extension to ISO 8601

General information about date and time notation standards:

• A Summary of the International Standard Date and Time Notation (by Markus Kuhn)
• A Walk Through Time (NIST)
• The Open Directory entry for calendars and time-keeping
• Units of Time (by George Hernandez)
• Time Scales (by Steven Allen)
• Calendars (by Gérard P. Michon)
• Today's Date and Time (by Will Linden) - http://www.ecben.net/calendar.shtml
• Reprint of "Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac" (P. Kenneth Seidelmann, editor)
• Wikipedia entry: "Timeline of the Universe"
• Wikipedia entry: "Geologic Timescale"
• Wikipedia entry: "List of calendars"
• Wikipedia entry: "Calendar date"
• Microsoft application date formatting