News from 2001 on DCMI

New versions of the Draft Recommendations for RDF/XML Expression of the Dublin Core™ are now available.

Fri, 07 Dec 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that newly modified versions of the Draft Recommendations for RDF/XML expression of the Dublin Core™ are now available for a second round of Public Comment until January 7, 2002. Changes have been applied to the sections on language qualification. Comments should be sent to DC-General.

Presentations from the DC-2001: International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications are now available

Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that HTML and PowerPoint versions of presentations given at the Conference in Tokyo are now available on the DCMI web site.

Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI) becomes DCMI Recommendation.

Thu, 15 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the document "Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI)" is now a DCMI Recommendation. We consider this one of the basic documents necessary for the effective deployment of Dublin Core™ on the Web. This document specifies the conventions used for identifying current and future DCMI namespaces. It gives the URIs for the DCMI namespaces and defines the policy for changes to DCMI terms.

October 2001 DCMI Status report now available.

Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published the next status report of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, looking at all activities that have taken place since the DC-8 Workshop in Ottawa, October 2000, until the DC-9 Workshop and DC-2001 Conference in Tokyo in October 2001.

Revised Working Draft of a Library Application Profile is now available

Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000

This document is a revision of the earlier application profile that clarifies the use of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set in libraries and library-related applications and projects. It will be discussed at the DCMI Conference in Tokyo, October 2001.

New DCMI Update newsletter now available.

Fri, 05 Oct 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The October 2001 issue of the DCMI Update is now available. The newsletter highlights news items, project and tool announcements that have occured since the last issue.

Two new documents are now available for public comment.

Fri, 21 Sep 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Further to the announcement of 18 September, there are now two more documents available for public comment,.

" Expressing Simple Dublin Core™ in RDF/XML" and
" Expressing Qualified Dublin Core™ in RDF/XML."

DCMI-Libraries Working Group meeting notes are now available

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

DCMI-Government Application Profile is now available for comment

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:00:00 +0000

A working draft for a DCMI-Government Application Profile is now available. This working draft was prepared by the Managing Information for e-Government (MIReG) group in conjunction with the DCMI-Government working group. The Working Group behind the working draft thanks everybody who has contributed and commented on the initial proposal. The intention is to submit a proposal to the DCMI Usage Board before the Tokyo Conference. The working group is still interested in comments, as soon as possible. Mailto: DC-Government mailing list.

Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is now available for public comment

Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the document "Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI)" is now available for public comment until October 19, 2001. Comments should be sent to the DC-General Mailing list.

MIReG Metadata Framework - Element Set Draft Available for Comments

Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:00:00 +0000

After the MIReG conference in Brussels, Belgium (see http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida) it was decided to set up an Advisory Board and develop a "EU Government Metadata Framework". Since the conference the Advisory Board, especially the UK Office of the e-Envoy, has worked on producing a draft of extensions or additions to Dublin Core™ Elements.

New Working Draft of a Library Application Profile is now available

Thu, 09 Aug 2001 00:00:00 +0000

This document proposes a possible application profile that clarifies the use of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set in libraries and library-related applications and projects. It will be discussed at a meeting of the DC-Libraries Working Group in Boston, Massachusetts on 22 August in conjunction with the IFLA conference. More Information...

ExLibris Special Collections Directory

Sat, 04 Aug 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The ExLibris Special Collections Directory seeks to provide a comprehensive directory of special collections libraries that support digitization and make content such as manuscripts, art images, and electronic texts available over the Internet.

New issue of the DCMI Update Newsletter now available

Fri, 03 Aug 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Update newsletter, July 2001, is now available. The newsletter highlights news items, project and tool announcements that have occured since the last issue.

Catalan translations of the Element set and Qualifiers are now available

Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The Biblioteca de Catalunya has translated the Dublin Core™ Element set, v. 1.1 and the Dublin Core™ Qualifiers. These translations are now available on the Library's web site.

WebArchiv

Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0000

WebArchiv is a project funded by the Czech Ministry of Culture. It has two main objectives: to catalogue online publications and to integrate these records into the Czech National Bibliography and to store these publications to ensure long term access.

DCMI-Libraries Working Group Meeting to be held at IFLA on August 22, 2001

Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0000

An official meeting of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative Libraries Working Group (DCMI-LibWG) will be held at during the IFLA meeting on August 22, 2001. This is a DCMI meeting and does not require IFLA registration. All DCMI-Libraries WG participants and IFLA attendees are welcome. Advance registration is requested.

DCMI Status Report - May/June 2001 is now available

Mon, 09 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published the next status report of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, looking at all activities that have taken place in the months of May and June 2001.

DCMI Tools Workshop

Fri, 06 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Tools workshop was held on June 20-22, 2001 in Osnabrck, Germany. The list of participants, background information and the minutes are now available from the Workshop website http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/projects/dctools/.

'Managing Information Resources for e-Government' Conference

Fri, 06 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The conference "Managing Information Resources for e-Government" was held on June 21-22, 2001 in Brussels, Belgium. The conference was arranged by the DCMI Government Working Group in collaboration with the European Commission and the European Parliament to explore the possibility of developing a framework for the use of metadata across European governments and parliaments. The notes and presentations from this conference are now available. http://ag.idaprog.org/Indis35prod/doc/312