News
DC-2004, this year's International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, that took place in Shanghai, China from 11 to 14 October was a great success. There were 160 participants from 21 countries, representing a wide range of domains: corporate, governments, libraries, archives, universities, education, computer science and international organisations. The closing presentation is available at http://dublincore.org/resources/presentations/Dekkers_DC-2004_closing.pdf.
The DCMI Directorate, in consultation with the DCMI Advisory Board, has appointed Thomas Severiens of the Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg and Harry Wagner of OCLC as chairs of the DCMI Tools Working Group, taking over from Roland Schwnzl who passed away this summer.
The DCMI Advisory Board, in its meeting on 15 October 2004 in Shanghai, decided to de-activate the DCMI Type Working Group.
The papers from the DC-2004 conference in Shanghai can be accessed by clicking on the titles of the papers on the DC-2004 Conference Program Web page, as well as at http://purl.org/metadataresearch /search.jsp. The tutorial slides are available in English and Chinese from the Training resources page on the DCMI Web site.
The Usage Board has published a summary of the main decisions taken at its meeting at DC-2004 in Shanghai
on 9-10 October 2004. These decisions include the approval of five new terms related to education, accessibility, and collection description; the endorsement of MARC Relator terms as sub-properties of Contributor; and clarification of a method for endorsing non-DCMI-maintained identifiers for use as vocabulary encoding schemes. Note that Usage Board decisions are not considered official until decision documents are finalized and published on the DCMI Web site.
The Usage Board has announced the approval of a new term: "Provenance". The full text of the decision can be found from the Usage Board Decisions Web page. The terms have been added to DCMI Metadata Terms and related documents, as well as to the RDF schema provided by DCMI and to the DCMI Registry.
Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published a new status report of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, covering the period March-September 2004. More information...
In preparation for its next meeting on 9 and 10 October 2004 in Shanghai, China, the DCMI Usage Board is inviting comments on several proposals. There are six proposals from the DCMI Collection Description Working Group, one from the DCMI Education Working Group and one from the DCMI Accessibility Working Group. These proposals are available for Public Comment until 30 September 2004. See for more information Work in Process: Documents Available for Public Comment.
The inaugural version of the Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary (PBcore), a standard way to describe all public broadcasting content based on Dublin Core™ metadata, is being finalized for the launch of version 1.0 in September 2004.
As part of the Affiliate Agreement with MLA and JISC in the UK, Paul Miller will represent the UK Affiliate on the DCMI Board of Trustees. Paul is the Director of the Common Information Environment in the UK, and was previously involved with DCMI as member of various executive and advisory committees and chair of working groups.