https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/ Recent content in News from 2006 on DCMI Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/12-18-updates-to-dcmi-terms-and-rdf-schemas/ Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/12-18-updates-to-dcmi-terms-and-rdf-schemas/ <p>The DCMI Usage Board has completed an editorial revision of terms in the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set, bringing definitions and usage comments into line with the DCMI Abstract Model. Documentation is available in revised Web pages, RDF schemas, and in a response to comments received during the Public Comment period.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/12-18-new-chairs-appointed-to-dcmi-communities-and-task-groups/ Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/12-18-new-chairs-appointed-to-dcmi-communities-and-task-groups/ <p>While many of the Working Groups chairs are continuing their work as DCMI Community moderators or DCMI Task Group leaders, there have been a number of changes. New Community Moderators are: Ann Apps (DCMI Collection Description Community), Raju Buddharaju (DCMI Preservation Community), Sarah Currier (DCMI Education Community), Matthias Menger (DCMI Environment Community), and Jon Phipps and Emma Tonkin (DCMI Registry Community). New Task Group Leaders are: Muriel Foulonneau and Sarah L. Shreeves (DCMI Collection Description Application Profile Task Group), and Hans Overbeek (DCMI Government Application Profile Task Group). These people have also become members of the DCMI Advisory Board. Pete Johnston (Collection Description), Eric Childress (Date), Stuart Sutton (Education), Sarah Rice (Global Corporate Circle), Heike Neuroth and John Kunze (Preservation) and Rachel Heery (Registry) have stepped down as chairs. The DCMI Directorate thanks the retiring chairs for their efforts in furthering the work of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative and wishes the new Community Moderators and Task Group Leaders success in their new responsibilities.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/12-18-establishment-of-dcmi-communities-and-task-groups/ Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/12-18-establishment-of-dcmi-communities-and-task-groups/ <p>Over the last two months, DCMI Working Groups have been converting into DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups. All groups are listed on the overview page of DCMI's work structure. On the DCMI Contact information page there are now also links to all public DCMI Wikis with contact information of the Wiki managers.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/12-18-dc-2007-program-co-chairs-appointed/ Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/12-18-dc-2007-program-co-chairs-appointed/ <p>The Program Committee for DC-2007, to be held in Singapore from 27 through 31 August 2007, will be chaired by Abdus Sattar Chaudry of Nanyang Technological University and Stuart Sutton of the University of Washington.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/10-30-manzanillo-resolution-2006/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/10-30-manzanillo-resolution-2006/ <p>Participants from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries met in a special session during DC-2006, and adopted a resolution to promote the use of metadata in the Ibero-american community and strengthen the involvement of and co-operation among implementers of Dublin Core™ metadata in that community.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/10-30-dcmi-technical-work-will-be-restructured-in-communities-and-task-forces/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/10-30-dcmi-technical-work-will-be-restructured-in-communities-and-task-forces/ <p>At DCMI meetings in Manzanillo, a new structure for technical work has been discussed and approved. DCMI Working Groups will be restructured as DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups. A DCMI Community, with a Web page and mailing list, will serve as a forum for open discussion on special topics or domain applications. A DCMI Task Group will develop specific deliverables such as application profiles on a DCMI wiki. In addition to existing groups, a new community is forming around the topic of social tagging. Further announcements will be made on the DCMI Web site and in DCMI mailing lists over the coming months.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/10-30-dc-2007-to-be-held-in-singapore-in-the-week-of-27-31-august-2007/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/10-30-dc-2007-to-be-held-in-singapore-in-the-week-of-27-31-august-2007/ <p>The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that DC-2007 will be held in Singapore in the week of 27-31 August 2007, hosted by the National Library Board in cooperation with the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information of Nanyang Technological University. An initial conference Web site has been installed with a number of relevant links. Publication of the Call for Papers is expected in December 2006.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/10-30-dc-2006-in-manzanillo-a-successful-conference/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/10-30-dc-2006-in-manzanillo-a-successful-conference/ <p>This year's conference, DC-2006, was held 3-6 October 2006 in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, and hosted by the University of Colima, with 250 participants from 24 countries. Key topics were model-based interoperability, controlled vocabularies, and practical deployment issues. Presentations are available for download from the conference program.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/10-30-appointments-to-dcmi-board-of-trustees/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/10-30-appointments-to-dcmi-board-of-trustees/ <p>At the meeting of the DCMI Board of Trustees held in Manzanillo on 7 October 2006, Sam Oh was appointed as the representative of the Korean DCMI Affiliate. At the same meeting, Joseph Busch and Shigeo Sugimoto were appointed for new three-year terms as independent members of the Board of Trustees.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/09-25-follow-up-for-public-comment-on-revisions-to-dublin-core-elements/ Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/09-25-follow-up-for-public-comment-on-revisions-to-dublin-core-elements/ <p>Public Comment was held from 28 August to 25 September 2006 on editorial revisions to labels, definitions and comments of terms in the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set. Comments received will be discussed at the DCMI Usage Board meeting in Manzanillo, Mexico, on 30 September 2006, and the results will be finalized over the coming weeks.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/09-25-dcmi-status-report-september-2006-published/ Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/09-25-dcmi-status-report-september-2006-published/ <p>Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published a new status report of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, covering the period March to September 2006. Read the report...</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/09-25-all-set-for-dc-2006/ Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/09-25-all-set-for-dc-2006/ <p>On Tuesday 3 October 2006, DC-2006, the International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications will open in the Krmina Palace Hotel in Manzanillo, Mexico. Please visit the conference Web site for the latest information. Online registration is open until 2 October 2006. On-site registration during the event is possible but only with payment in cash (Mexican pesos and US dollars) and travellers cheques (US dollars only). We are looking forward to meeting you next week in Mexico!</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/08-28-updated-dc-2006-program-credit-card-payment-now-installed/ Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/08-28-updated-dc-2006-program-credit-card-payment-now-installed/ <p>A further update of the program for DC-2006 has been published with the names of the chairs of all paper sessions. Credit card payment has been installed on the registration page.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/08-28-satellite-meetings-at-dc-2006/ Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/08-28-satellite-meetings-at-dc-2006/ <p>Around the DC-2006 conference, a number of DCMI committees will have meetings. On 30 September and 1 October 2006, a meeting takes place of the DCMI Usage Board. The day before the conference, 2 October 2006, a meeting is scheduled of the DCMI Advisory Board, while the day after the conference, 7 October 2006, the DCMI Board of Trustees will meet. All meetings will take place in the conference hotel in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/08-28-revised-dcmi-type-vocabulary-published/ Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/08-28-revised-dcmi-type-vocabulary-published/ <p>On the basis of input received from a Public Comment period held earlier this year, the DCMI Usage Board has finalized a set of revisions to the DCMI Type Vocabulary. The RDF schema for the DCMI Type Vocabulary and the DCMI Registry have been updated accordingly.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/08-28-public-comment-for-revisions-to-dublin-core-metadata-element-set/ Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/08-28-public-comment-for-revisions-to-dublin-core-metadata-element-set/ <p>The DCMI Usage Board has announced a Public Comment period for editorial revisions to labels, definitions and comments of terms in the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set. The proposed revisions clarify intended meanings and update the wording of definitions and comments in accordance with the DCMI Abstract Model. Comments can be submitted from 28 August through 25 September 2006 by posting to the DC-GENERAL mailing list. Comments received will be discussed at the Usage Board meeting in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, on 30 September 2006.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/08-07-further-details-on-dc-2006-program-registration-and-sponsorship/ Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/08-07-further-details-on-dc-2006-program-registration-and-sponsorship/ <p>The program for DC-2006 has been upgraded to include details of the paper sessions with paper titles and authors. Registration details are available at the registration page. A call for sponsors has also been published on the conference Web site.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/07-05-follow-up-for-public-comment-on-dc-xml-and-dc-rdf/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/07-05-follow-up-for-public-comment-on-dc-xml-and-dc-rdf/ <p>Public Comment was held from 30 May through 27 June 2006 on revised guidelines for expressing Dublin Core™ metadata in XML and in RDF. A report on issues raised will serve as the basis for further updates of the RDF expression.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/07-05-dc-2006-preliminary-program-published/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/07-05-dc-2006-preliminary-program-published/ <p>The preliminary program for DC-2006, to be held in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico on 3-7 October 2006, is now available from the conference Web site. The conference features two keynotes, one on 3 October by Abel Packer of BIREME in Brazil and one on 6 October by Michael Crandall of the Information School at the University of Washington. In three plenary and four parallel paper sessions, 21 long and 7 short papers will be presented, while an additional seven papers will be read in a special session for reports on Portuguese and Spanish language projects. Furthermore, in the workshop track 13 working group sessions and eight special sessions are on the program. One each of the four conference days, a set of tutorials will introduce basic as well as more advanced concepts related to the implementation of Dublin Core™ metadata in practice.</p> https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/05-30-public-comment-on-expressing-dublin-core-metadata-using-xml/ Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.dublincore.org/news/2006/05-30-public-comment-on-expressing-dublin-core-metadata-using-xml/ <p>Pete Johnston and Andy Powell have finalized a Working Draft on expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using XML. Public Comment will be held from 30 May through 27 June. Comments of a technical nature should be sent to the dc-architecture mailing list; a summary of technical issues has been posted there, with pointers to release notes and example schemas.</p>