DCMI Libraries Community on DCMI

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The materials produced by the DCMI RDA Task Group have been archived in a Github repository. These include:

Report of the meeting of the Dublin Core™ Libraries Working Group DC-2004, Shanghai, Tuesday 12 October 2004

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30 people attended this working group meeting

The agenda of the WG was:

Presentation of the revised DC-Lib - Robina Clayphan
Feedback form the Usage Board - Rebecca Guenther
Presentations from the floor - speakers
Discussion and work plan for the next year - all and RC

1. Presentation of the revised version of DC-Lib

http://dublincore.org/documents/2004/09/10/library-application-profile/
The main task of the WG over the past year was the production of a revised version of the library application profile, DC-Lib. This has been updated with the decisions taken at the meeting in 2003 and reformatted according to the CEN Guidelines for DCAPs. Robina Clayphan presented the revised version and explained the changes that had been made to conform to the Guidelines. There were several issues that were still awaiting the outcome of Usage Board meetings and one or two that are being handled by other working groups, notably the Date working group. The main outstanding issues were:

DCMI-Libraries Working Group Meeting Report, Tokyo, Japan, 24 October 2001

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Originally a single session was planned for 22 October 2001. At the behest of attendees of the initial DCMI Libraries Working Group session a second session of the working group was also held on 24 October 2001. Approximately 30 people attended each session. In the absence of the chair of the working group, Rebecca Guenther (Library of Congress), who was not able to attend DC 2001, Eric Childress (OCLC) moderated both sessions.

DCMI-Libraries Working Group Meeting Report, Boston, USA, 22 August 2001

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This meeting was an official DCMI-Libraries WG event that was held in conjunction with the International Federation of Library Associations conference. The main topic on the agenda was a discussion of the draft Dublin Core™ Library Application Profile (referred to as DC-LAP), which is intended to clarify the use of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set in libraries and library-related applications and projects. It was prepared by a subset of the DCMI-Libraries Working Group, referred to below as the Drafting committee. The draft document is at:
http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/08/08/library-application-profile/

DCMI Libraries Working Group Meeting Report, Seattle, USA, 29 September 2003

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This is a summarised version of the report from the Seattle meeting. The full report can be found at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0311&L=dc-ibraries&T=0&F=&S=&P=153

DC-Lib and Usage Board Decisions

Rebecca Guenther summarised the change history of DC-Lib to date and reported on Usage Board decisions from June and September 2003 that will have an impact on the next version.

DCMI Libraries Working Group Meeting Report, Florence, Italy, 15 October 2002

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DCMI-Libraries Working Group Meeting Report, Florence, Italy, 15 October 2002

The DCMI Libraries Working Group met on 15 October 2002 at DC2002. The group had the following agenda:

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Working Group for Reviewing Resource Description and Access (RDA)

Chair:	Robina Clayphan The British Library, UK
RDA Liaison:	Matthew Beacom Yale University
Members:	Tom Baker - DCMI Brad Eden - University of Nevada, USA Corey Harper - University of Oregon, USA Christine Frodl - Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Germany Jane Greenberg - University of North Carolina, USA Robin Wendler - Harvard University, USA John Chapman - University of Minnesota, USA Marty Kurth - Cornell University, USA Dr. RSR Varalakshmi - Andhra University, India Cassandra Armstrong - Library Associates, USA Douglas King - University of South Carolina, USA Leif Andresen - Danish National Library Authority, Denmark Anchalee (Joy) Panigabutra-Roberts - St Cloud University, MN, USA Susan Pyzynski - Harvard, USA
Description:	This working group -- a task force of the DCMI Libraries Working Group -- has been formed to review drafts of the new content standard "Resource Description and Access" (RDA) and to offer input into the drafting process from a Dublin Core™ perspective.

Context

Rules for creating the content of metadata descriptions constitute an important aspect of interoperability. Content-level agreements exist within specific communities but interpretation of the content can become problematic when data is moved between domains.

DCMI Libraries Community

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DC-Library Application Profile (DC-LAP)(SUPERSEDED, SEE LIBRARY APPLICATION PROFILE)

I. Introduction

The concept of application profiles (see Application profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas) has emerged within the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative as a way to declare which elements from which namespaces are used in a particular application or project. Application profiles are defined as schemas which consist of data elements drawn from one or more namespaces, combined together by implementors, and optimised for a particular local application.