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B. M. Watson from the University of British Columbia School of Information wins the DCMI 2023 Student Forum Award for their proposal, 'The Trans Metadata Collective' (TMDC). TMDC intends to enhance the representation and inclusion of trans and gender-diverse communities in cultural heritage institutions.
DCMI is providing a new home for SKOS-Thes, a namespace that extends SKOS on the basis of the ISO 25964 data model. The ISO 25964 standard, published in 2011, covers all aspects of developing thesauri and setting up mappings across vocabularies to encourage high quality information retrieval across networked resources.
Niklas Lindström has been appointed as Co-Chair of DCMI Usage Board, which maintains DCMI Metadata Terms and ISO 15836. He is a consultant with a background in web and data technologies, and works as a systems developer at the National Library of Sweden, specializing in linked data structures, semantics, protocols, and interoperability.
It has been proposed that a very small vocabulary with minimally constrained classes and properties representing the concepts of Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item would benefit anyone designing metadata for created resources. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has opened a community group to develop this core vocabulary.
Website of the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) community moves to dublincore.org.
Webinar by Dr. María Poveda-Villalón, scheduled for April 7, 2022, 16:00 UTC. This webinar addresses ontologies for the semantic web and how FAIR principles could be applied to ontologies. This includes metadata best practices and registries to publish the ontologies as Linked Open Vocabularies
The Dublin Core task group on Learning Resource Metadata (LRMI) wishes to receive comments on a new high-level vocabulary for categorizing Learning Resources by type.
This webinar is scheduled for February 10, 2022, 16:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.
This webinar is scheduled for Thursday, 16 December 2021, 16:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.
This webinar is scheduled for Thursday, 18 November 2021, 18:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.