News from 2005
The preliminary program for DC-2005, to be held in Madrid from 12 through 15 September, is now online. The program includes keynotes by Thomas Baker, Ricardo Baeza, Johannes Keizer and Eric Miller, presentations of 36 papers and project reports, a series of tutorials on metadata basics and numerous working group meetings.
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that after the Public Comment period that ended in May 2005, the Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core™ Metadata are now published as a DCMI Recommendation.
The DCMI Usage Board will meet on 19-20 May 2005 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Please contact Tom Baker for further information.
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that two documents are now available for public comment until 18 May 2005. These are Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core™ Metadata and Element Refinement in Dublin Core™ Metadata. Comments should be sent to the DC-General mailing list. For further information see the Public Comment page.
The Call for Papers for DC-2005 is now closed. The Program Committee will review the received papers and communicate acceptance of papers to the authors by 1 June 2005. The Call for Exhibitors is still open to 15 July 2005. For any further information about these calls, please contact [email protected].
The Call for Papers for DC-2005, to be hosted by the University Carlos III of Madrid in Legans (Madrid) on 12-15 September 2005, has been extended to 15 April 2005. At the same time, the deadline for the Call for Exhibitors has been extended. If you want to make a proposal as exhibitor at DC-2005, you can complete the Call for Exhibitors form until shortly before the Conference, but you are invited to do so before 15 July 2005. See the conference Web site, http://dc2005.uc3m.es for further details.
Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published a new status report of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, covering the period October 2004-March 2005. More information...
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that after the Public Comment period that took place in February 2005, the DCMI Abstract Model is now published as a DCMI Recommendation. The document is primarily aimed at the developers of software applications that support Dublin Core™ metadata, people involved in developing new syntax encoding guidelines for Dublin Core™ metadata and those people developing metadata application profiles based on the Dublin Core™.
The Call for Papers and Call for Exhibitors for DC-2005, to be hosted by the University Carlos III of Madrid in Legans (Madrid) on 12-15 September 2005, are available on the conference Web site, http://dc2005.uc3m.es. Both calls are open until 1 April 2005.
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the DCMI Abstract Model is now available for public comment as a Proposed Recommendation. We are inviting comments on this important document until 5 March 2005. Comments should be sent to the DC-General mailing list with subject Public Comment DCMI Abstract Model. The Proposed Recommendation is available at: http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/