Workshop on DCMI

Dublin Core Workshops

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Series ran from 1995 to 2000, convening information professionals from around the world to develop the Dublin Core metadata standard. These eight foundational workshops established the 15-element Dublin Core that became ISO 15836 and remains one of the most widely used metadata standards.

DC-8: Eighth Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop

Wed, 04 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

The eighth and final Dublin Core Metadata Workshop brought together more than 150 participants from 18 countries — librarians, researchers, museum specialists, publishers, commercial content providers, and others — at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa. Co-sponsored by the National Library of Canada, OCLC, and the IFLA UDT Core Programme, DC-8 marked the transition from the workshop series to a formal conference format.

DC-7: Seventh Dublin Core Metadata Workshop

Mon, 25 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The seventh Dublin Core Metadata Workshop was held at Die Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Co-sponsored by Die Deutsche Bibliothek and OCLC, with support from the National Science Foundation, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), DC-7 was a pivotal event in the development of Dublin Core qualifiers.

DC-6: Sixth Dublin Core Metadata Workshop

Mon, 02 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

The sixth Dublin Core Metadata Workshop convened 101 experts in resource description from 16 countries on 4 continents at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. With support from the National Science Foundation and the Coalition for Networked Information, DC-6 marked a significant evolution in the Dublin Core initiative — shifting focus from resolving issues in plenary sessions to identifying unresolved problems and assigning them to formal working groups.

DC-5: The Helsinki Metadata Workshop

Mon, 06 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000

The fifth Dublin Core Metadata Workshop brought together approximately 70 attendees from sixteen countries on four continents, representing librarians, digital library researchers, computer networking specialists, content experts, and museum information specialists. Travel support was provided by the National Science Foundation, OCLC, CNI, and attendee home institutions.

DC-4: Fourth Dublin Core Metadata Workshop

Mon, 03 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

The fourth Dublin Core Metadata Workshop convened 65 participants from 12 countries across 4 continents at the National Library of Australia in Canberra, representing digital library researchers, Internet specialists, content specialists, and librarians.

DC-3: CNI/OCLC Image Metadata Workshop

Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0000

The third Dublin Core Metadata Workshop brought together seventy practitioners in the area of networked image description to address the application of the Dublin Core element set to image resource description. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and OCLC.

DC-2: Warwick Metadata Workshop

Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:00:00 +0000

The second Dublin Core Metadata Workshop was held at the University of Warwick, UK, bringing together approximately 50 representatives from libraries, Internet standards bodies, text markup communities, and digital library projects across three continents and eleven countries. It was endorsed by JISC, NCSA, DLib, and ERCIM.

DC-1: OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop

Wed, 01 Mar 1995 00:00:00 +0000

The OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop, the first in what would become the Dublin Core workshop series, convened 52 professionals from diverse fields — computer science, librarianship, online information services, abstracting and indexing, imaging and geospatial data, museum and archive control — to address the problem of describing networked information resources.