To DC Standards WG

It is a pleasure to inform you that CEN/ISSS Workshop on Metadata for
Multimedia Information - Dublin Core (MMI-DC) at the meeting last week we
approved in unison Dublin Core version 1.1 as a CEN Workshop Agreement
(CWA).

It will be published with a foreword and with some formal changes of the
references in DC 1.1.

The workshop now continues the work with Guidance Information for the use of
Dublin Core in Europe.

The Guidance material is intended to bring together documentation on the use
of Dublin Core in Europe in the following areas:
- Strategic documentation (i.e.: outlining the reasons for choosing Dublin
Core or another Metadata Element Set)
- User guidelines
- Technical implementation guidelines

In parallel with this activity is it a task for the workshop to maintain and
promote a knowledge base for metadata for multimedia information (the
"Observatory") to continually assess relationships between Dublin Core and
other initiatives - in order to assist evolution of standardised metadata
schemes.  This knowledge base identifies the key activities currently being
undertaken in Europe and across the world - the scope of these activities
and related work in European projects and programmes.

regards
Leif
 
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Leif Andresen    *   Email: [log in to unmask]
Library Advisory Officer
Danish National Library Authority
Nyhavn 31 E, DK-1051 Copenhagen K
Phone direct: +45 3373 3354
Phone: +45 3373 3373 *  Telefax: +45 3373 3372
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