News from 2008 on DCMI

Usage Board reviews Scholarly Works Application Profile and term proposals

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

At its face-to-face meeting in Berlin, the DCMI Usage Board reviewed the Scholarly Works Application Profile and found it to be in conformance with its current review criteria, pending minor revisions. In response to a proposal from the DCMI Libraries Community for a new property "holding location", the Usage Board suggested the use of the existing property "availability" in the AGLS Metadata Terms maintained by the National Archives of Australia; suggestions regarding proposals for properties "date captured" and "version" were forwarded to the DCMI Libraries Community for further discussion. The Usage Board resolved to work with the AGLS Working Group on finalizing a DCMI property and related AGLS vocabulary encoding scheme for describing characteristics related to the accessibility of resources.

DC-2009 Program Chairs and Conference Theme

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Sam Oh (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Stuart Sutton (University of Washington, USA) have been confirmed as Program Chairs for DC-2009, to be held 12-16 October 2009 at the National Library of Korea in Seoul. The theme of the conference will be "Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data". The Call for Papers will be published in January 2009.

'Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core™ Metadata' published as a Working Draft

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

"Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core™ Metadata", published today as a DCMI Working Draft, discusses the modeling choices involved in designing metadata applications for different types of interoperability. At Level 1, applications use data components with shared natural-language definitions. At Level 2, data is based on the formal-semantic model of the W3C Resource Description Framework. At Level 3, data is structured as Description Sets (i.e., as records). At Level 4, data content is subject to a shared set of constraints (as described in a Description Set Profile). Conformance tests and examples are provided for each level. The Working Draft represents work in progress for which the authors seek feedback. Interested members of the public are invited to post comments by 1 December 2008 to the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list, including "[Public Comment]" in the subject line.

'Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles' published as a Working Draft

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The new DCMI Working Draft "Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles" describes the key components of an application profile and walks the reader through the process of designing a profile. Addressed primarily to a non-technical audience, the guidelines also provide a technical appendix about modeling the metadata interoperably for use in linked data environments. This draft will be revised in response to feedback from readers. Interested members of the public are invited to post comments by 1 December 2008 to the DC-GENERAL mailing list, including "[Public Comment]" in the subject line.

Wiki software for Description Set Profiles available in Open Source

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

"A MoinMoin Wiki Syntax for Description Set Profiles" has been published as a DCMI Working Draft. Using this syntax, editors can embed constraint information about application profiles into normal Wiki documents and extract this information using an Open Source MoinMoin Wiki tool for display in XML. This functionality is illustrated by the MoinMoin Wiki document for the Scholarly Works Application Profile.

Record attendance for DC-2008

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This year's conference and workshop DC-2008, held from 22 through 26 September 2008 in Berlin, was very well attended with 312 participants from 170 organizations in 39 countries. Presentations that were given in all tracks during the event are now linked from the Programme page. DCMI wishes to thank the organizers of the conference Competence Centre Interoperable Metadata (KIM), Max Planck Digital Library, Gttingen State and University Library, the German National Library and Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin for hosting the conference.

DC-2009 to be hosted at the National Digital Library in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Directorate and the National Library of Korea are pleased to announce that DC-2009, the ninth International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, will be held at the National Digital Library in Seoul, Korea, from 12 through 16 October 2009.

Changes in DCMI Communities and Task Groups after DC-2008

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

At the DCMI Advisory Board meeting in Berlin on 27 September 2008, the DCMI Tools Community announced that Seth Van Hooland of the Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, will replace Jane Greenberg as co-moderator of the group. In the DCMI Social Tagging Community, Liddy Nevile will hand over to Eva Mndez of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, and Ana Alice Baptista of the Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Seth and Ana have also become members of the DCMI Advisory Board. It was also decided at the meeting of the Advisory Board to deactivate the DCMI Date Task Group.

DC-2008 to start in a few days

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

DC-2008, the 8th International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications will open in a few days. Online registration is now closed. On-site registration during the event is possible but only with payment in cash (Euros). See the registration page for the conference fees. We are looking forward to meeting many of you in Berlin!

Public Comment on DCMI Proposed Recommendation for Expressing Dublin Core™ Description Sets using XML

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

"Expressing Dublin Core™ description sets using XML (DC-DS-XML)" by Pete Johnston and Andy Powell has been published as a DCMI Proposed Recommendation for public comment from 1 to 29 September 2008. A related document, "Notes on the DC-DS-XML XML Format", describes the development of the format and its relationship to the DCMI Recommendation "Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML" of April 2003. The Proposed Recommendation supports the W3C specification Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) in the form of an XSLT transform for extracting RDF triples from instances of metadata in the DC-DS-XML format. The specification includes 21 examples together with their equivalent representations in the DC-Text and RDF/XML syntaxes. A W3C XML Schema for the DC-DS-XML format is provided. Interested members of the public are invited to post comments to the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list, including [Public Comment] in the subject line.

Final preparations for DC-2008

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The preparations for DC-2008, the 8th International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications to be held from 22 through 26 September 2008 in Berlin are in full swing. Currently, around 250 participants are registered for the conference. Online registration is open until 12 September 2008 at the conference Web site. On-site registration during the event is possible but only with payment in cash (Euros). We are looking forward to meeting many of you in three weeks in Berlin!

DCMI Status Report September 2008

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Directorate, in co-operation with the moderators of DCMI Communities and leaders of DCMI Task Groups, has issued a new six-month Status Report for the period March to September 2008.

Revised encoding specifications for HTML and XHTML published as a DCMI Recommendation

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

"Expressing Dublin Core™ metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements" by Pete Johnston and Andy Powell has been published as a DCMI Recommendation. A related document, "Notes on DCMI specifications for Dublin Core™ metadata in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements", provides a guide to implementers to the differences between the HTML/XHTML meta data profile provided by the 2008 Recommendation and that of a previous Recommendation of November 2003. The Recommendation supports the W3C specification Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) in the form of an XSLT transform for extracting RDF triples from instances of Dublin Core™ metadata in HTML/XHTML.

DC-2008: early bird discount extended to 15 August 2008

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

"Early bird" registration for DC-2008, the 8th International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications to be held from 22 through 26 September 2008 in Berlin has been extended for two weeks. Participants are invited to register online at the conference Web site and book accommodation for their stay in Berlin. We are looking forward to meeting many of you in Berlin in September!

National Library of Korea hosts the DCMI Web site

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

As of today, the DCMI Web site has moved to the National Library of Korea. The DCMI Directorate wishes to express thanks to OCLC Research for having hosted the DCMI Web site for more than ten years, and to the National Library of Korea for agreeing to take on this role from now on. The National Library of Korea is a member of the DCMI Affiliate Program and also hosts the DCMI Conference Paper Repository.

DC-2008: final program published, early bird discount closes on 31 July 2008

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The final programme of DC-2008, to be held from 22 through 26 September in Berlin, has been published on the conference Web site. The early bird discount will be available until 31 July 2008. Please go to the registration page to register for the conference, tutorials and seminars.

New Gold Partner: Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, the Italian Digital Renaissance Foundation that promotes the use of the new Information and Communication Technologies for cultural heritage applications, has joined the DCMI Partnership Program as a Gold Partner.

Jane Greenberg awarded the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology 2008

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Jane Greenberg, Program co-Chair of DC-2008 and co-moderator of the DCMI Tools Community, has been awarded the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology 2008. This award is given annually for outstanding research in information science and information retrieval, and was presented at the ALA/LITA conference in June 2008 in Anaheim, California, USA. The DCMI Directorate wishes to congratulate Jane for winning this prestigious award.

DC-2008: final program to be published soon, early bird discount until 31 July

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The final programme of DC-2008, to be held from 22 through 26 September in Berlin, is expected to be published on 14 July. The early bird discount will be available until 31 July 2008. Please go to the registration page to register for the conference, tutorials and seminars.

New Platinum partner: Infocom Corporation

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that Infocom Corporation, the Japanese company that develops InfoLib, an integrated multimedia search system that is based on the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set, has become a Platinum Partner in the DCMI Partnership Program.