News from 2000 on DCMI

The Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions

Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

An article by Stuart L. Weibel and Traugott Koch has been published in the December 2000 issue of DLib Magazine.

Press Release: E-Learning Takes Important Step Forward

Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

The Learning Technology Standards Committee Learning Objects Metadata working group of the IEEE and the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative today announced their joint commitment to develop interoperable metadata for learning, education and training.

Presentations from DC-8 Workshop Now Available

Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

PowerPoint and HTML versions of presentations made at the DC-8 Workshop in Ottawa are now available on the DCMI web site.

Call for Information about Management about Metadata

Thu, 09 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

DCMI Administrative Metadata Working Group: Send information about your management of metadata: elements and description of use. We are interested in both working projects and proposals for projects.

PictureAustralia

Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

The PictureAustralia service has been provided for use by all Australians, to discover our heritage as documented in pictures. Through a single access point, it is possible to search the distributed image collections of many cultural institutions.

Metabrowser

Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Metabrowser is a web browser that shows metadata and web pages simultaneously.

DC-Education Summary Proposal

Thu, 05 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

This document is a Draft Proposal of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, and is intended to reflect consensus reached within the Education Working Group of the DCMI. It reports decisions reached by DCEd through its online discussions and face-to-face meetings in Frankfurt (October 25-27, 1999) and Melbourne (February 19-20, 2000).

8th International Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative Workshop (DC8)

Wed, 04 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

The National Library of Canada and OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. are pleased to host the 8th International Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative Workshop, co-sponsored by the IFLA UDT Core Programme.

TagGen - Dublin Core™ Edition

Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000

TagGen Dublin Core™ is a metatag generator that is use to create metatags in an enhanced wizard interface. Using the TagGen Wizard you can add Page Properties, Site Properties, PICS Properties, and all other search engine related metadata.

Recording qualified Dublin Core™ metadata in HTML meta elements

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

The Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set (DCMES) allows much descriptive information about resources to be expressed. However, in some applications it is desirable to refine the meanings of the DCMES metadata. A method for refining DCMES is encompassed in an extended model known as Qualified Dublin Core™ metadata, which requires additional labels and data, known generically as qualifiers. In this recommendation, we describe the methods provided directly by HTML, and explain how to record Qualified DCMES metadata in HTML using the meta element in the document head.

DC-assist

Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

DC-assist is a small, flexible help utility for metadata applicatons and is intended to complement the help pages embedded within existing software.

Updated Recommendation: DCMI Point Encoding Scheme

Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Document reflects minor editorial changes.

Updated Recommendation: DCMI Period Encoding Scheme

Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Document reflects minor editorial changes.

Updated Recommendation: DCMI Dublin Core™ Structured Values

Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Document reflects minor editorial changes.

Updated Recommendation: DCMI Box Encoding Scheme

Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Document reflects minor editorial changes.

DC-dot

Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

DC-dot is now conformant with the recently recommended Dublin Core™ Qualifiers. This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core™ metadata suitable for embedding in the page. The generated metadata can be edited or converted to various other formats.

New Working Draft: Using Dublin Core

Sun, 16 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

This document is intended as an entry point for users of Dublin Core™. For non-specialists, it will assist in creating simple descriptive records for information resources. Specialists may find the document a useful point of reference to the documentation of Dublin Core™ as it changes and grows.

New Working Draft: Using Dublin Core™ in XML

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

This document explains how to encode the DCES in XML, provides a DTD to validate the documents and describes a method to link them from web pages.

The Victorian Education Channel

Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

The Victorian Education Channel (Australia) has been develooped to integrate access to educational information and services available on the web.

Press Release: Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative Releases Recommended Qualifiers

Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

The Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative today announced the formal recommendation of the Dublin Core™ Qualifiers.