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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]

Corpus is a search engine written in Java that index content, context and metadata in documents on the network or on the local file system. It is used as a "distributed relational database" for document-oriented solutions with metadata as indexed keys.

This issue evolved in cooperation with the organizers and the program committee of DC-2001, the International conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications held in Tokyo, Japan. The papers are freely available online. More Information...

the Usage Board announces the availability for review and public comment of a proposal for a new Audience element qualifier submitted to the Board by the DC-Education Working Group. The text of the proposal can be reached from the "News" link on the DC-Education Working Group page.

The Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI) announces its first Board of Trustees, formed to provide strategic leadership and support to the organization. Trustees are selected for a variety of characteristics, including personal and professional abilities, geographical representation, and professional sector. More Information...

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that newly modified versions of the Draft Recommendations for RDF/XML expression of the Dublin Core™ are now available for a second round of Public Comment until January 7, 2002. Changes have been applied to the sections on language qualification. Comments should be sent to DC-General.

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that HTML and PowerPoint versions of presentations given at the Conference in Tokyo are now available on the DCMI web site.

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the document "Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI)" is now a DCMI Recommendation. We consider this one of the basic documents necessary for the effective deployment of Dublin Core™ on the Web. This document specifies the conventions used for identifying current and future DCMI namespaces. It gives the URIs for the DCMI namespaces and defines the policy for changes to DCMI terms.

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-8 Workshop in Ottawa, October 2000, until the DC-9 Workshop and DC-2001 Conference in Tokyo in October 2001.

This document is a revision of the earlier application profile that clarifies the use of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set in libraries and library-related applications and projects. It will be discussed at the DCMI Conference in Tokyo, October 2001.