News from 2002 on DCMI

New XML Schema for Simple DC

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0000

A revised XML Schema for XML has been published, superseding the 2002-03-12 version. Both versions are now linked from http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/.

Mark your calendars: DC-2003 dates and location

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0000

DCMI and the University of Washington Information School are pleased to announce the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative Annual Conference, to be held in Seattle, Washington, USA, September 29th through October 2nd, 2003. See http://www.ischool.washington.edu/dc2003/ [cached copy].

DC-Corporate mailing list established

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Following discussions in the Corporate Track of the Florence conference, a mailing list has been established for people who have an interest in sharing and developing good practice in the adoption and deployment of Dublin Core™ to information services including traditional, web, and broadband publishing, as well as enterprise information applications including intranets, extranets, and Internet. An article by DCMI Board member Michael Crandall about the Corporate Circle initiative has been posted by the Montague Institute at http://www.montague.com/review/crandall3.shtml.

Position paper on records management / recordkeeping metadata is now available for Comment

Tue, 03 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0000

This report was prepared by Andrew Wilson, co-chair of DC-Government WG and John Roberts and surveys the current state of international and/or global work on the development of records management / recordkeeping metadata element sets. The purpose of this was to determine whether DCMI should work on developing its own set or become involved in international projects carrying out this work. The report makes a number of recommendations for DCMI involvement, including the establishment of an Interest Group.

New Chair for DCMI User Guide Working Group

Tue, 03 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that Mary Woodley has agreed to become the chair of the DCMI User Guide Working Group. Mary works at California State University in Northridge, California, USA and has several roles there: Metadata or Digital Librarian, Social Sciences Librarian and incoming head of Collection Development. She has been involved in the DCMI User Guide Working Group for a number of years.

The Usage Board has announced the availability of a new set of documents

Mon, 05 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Besides initiating processes for the review and approval of new Dublin Core™ elements and qualifiers, the Usage Board has revamped the way Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative documents its work. The documents, accessible from http://dublincore.org/usage/, currently include:

Proposed XML Schema for Qualified Dublin Core™ is now available for Comment

Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000

A small group has been working together to formulate a proposed XML schema for qualified Dublin Core™. This work builds on a number of efforts including the joint work by the OAI (http://www.openarchives.org) and DCMI that led to the release of an XML schema for unqualified Dublin Core™ at http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/simpledc20020312.xsd, and the metadata work within the Harmony Project (http://metadata.net/harmony).

New version of the 'Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML' now available

Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000

A new version of the "Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML" document is available at: http://dublincore.org/documents/2002/07/23/dc-xml-guidelines/. The principal change in this version is to Recommendation 7 in line with the conventions adopted in the proposed XML schemas for qualified DC: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/xmlschema/.

DC-2002 will take place in Florence, Italy

Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that DC-2002 will take place October 14-17 in Florence, Italy. As with DC 2001 in Tokyo, we are planning a three track meeting: A workshop track A tutorial track A conference track The conference site will be the Convitto della Calza, an ancient convent of the 14th century, once a hospital for pilgrims, recently and completely restored. It is located in the historical centre of Florence, very close to the Pitti Palace and Ponte Vecchio, near the Porta Romana.

DC-2002 Call For Papers

Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI 2002 Programme Committee invites papers in the following categories:

E-Government
Search engines and metadata
Educational metadata: improving communication
Knowledge management
Use of DC metadata for commerce and intranets
Semantic web: roles of standard cataloguing, indexing, metadata and ontologies
Metadata interoperability: tools and protocols, and
Cultural heritage metadata.

Deadline for papers is 2002-06-15.

Public Comment needed for Usage Board Proposals

Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0000

The Usage Board announces the availability for review and public comment proposals from three DCMI working groups. Proposals come from the DCMI Type Working group, the DCMI Citation Working group and six proposals from the DCMI Libraries Working group.

DCMI-EU proposal evaluation results

Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI-EU proposal has been evaluated by the Eurpoean Commission in the usual procedure with independent evaluators. We have now received the outcome of this evaluation.

April 2002 DCMI Status report now available

Tue, 16 Apr 2002 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-2002 Conference and Workshop in Tokyo, October 2002. More information...

Metadata Principles and Practicalities

Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Authored by Erik Duval, Wayne Hodges, Stuart Sutton, and Stu Weibel, this paper emerged as part of a plan to bring the metadata efforts of DCMI and the IEEE LOM closer together. It reflects what some of the leaders of both groups feel to be common princples shared by our communities. We feel that these principles are likely to be common to other metadata communities as well, and that this paper will advance the common understandings necessary to improve adoption of useful metadata in many areas.

Dublin Core™ Element Set, v.1.1 now available in Norwegian

Thu, 04 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0000

The Norwegian Committee on Cataloguing has now published the Norwegian translation of Dublin Core™ version 1.1 on its website. Version 1.1 was translated for the Norwegian Committee on Cataloguing by Frank B. Haugen and Carol van Nuys.

WWW full-text and bibliographic resources for libraries

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:00:00 +0000

The joint project of two national libraries: the National library of Russia (St.-Petersburg) and Russian state library (Moscow). The main aim of the register is to provide the verified information sources primarily for specialists in librarianship, information sciences, humanities and social sciences. Database supplied with rubricator that describes subject coverage. Records internal format is Dublin Core™. Resources description language is Russian.

European Network DCMI-EU submits proposal to the European Commission

Wed, 06 Mar 2002 00:00:00 +0000

On 28 February 2002, a proposal has been submitted to the European Commission's IST Programme for a Thematic Network called DCMI-EU.

Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative Progress Report and Workplan for 2002

Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 +0000

The Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative Directorate is pleased to announce the publication of the 2002 Progress report and Workplan in the February 2002 issue of D-Lib Magazine.

xdirectory

Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:00:00 +0000

xdirectory is the core of ESP's information management suite. Built from the ground up for the web, it offers a fully configurable, browser-based environment for creating and publishing searchable web-based information directories. xdirectory hand you the power to construct database-driven e-directories for your organisations intranet or public web-site.

DCMI-Environment Special Interest Group is now online

Thu, 14 Feb 2002 00:00:00 +0000

This group is a forum for individuals and organisations involved in implementing Dublin Core™ in the environmental domain, with the objective to establish representation of the domain in DCMI and to promote interoperability within the domain through the use of Dublin Core™. It will collect information on usage of the Dublin Core™ in the domain, work on establishing guidelines and develop an Application Profile for the environmental domain. [More Information]