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DCMI Update - March 2000

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"Marsh,Beth" <[log in to unmask]>

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DCMI Update
March 2000 (a summary of activities from February 2000)

A Monthly Newsletter from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

Online Version:  http://purl.org/dc/news/nl2000-03.htm



Action!

Banners and badges are now available to include on your web site.  The
banners and badges (http://purl.org/dc/banners/index.htm) are provided in
the JPEG file format for use by members of the public who wish to include
them on a Web site. No special permission is required from the Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative to reproduce these images, however, banners must be
linked directly to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Web site at
(http://purl.org/dc).

News Briefs

*	2000-02-16: CIMI Institute Announces three new venues for its
workshop: Helping People Find What They Want: Implementing the Dublin Core
in Museums 

This two day workshop focuses on information access and management issues in
museums and cultural heritage organizations through the use of the CIMI
recommendations for the Dublin Core metadata   standard. This workshop is
designed for museum and cultural heritage professionals, information
managers, systems staff, and administrators looking for ways to better
manage information resources and make them available to the broad World Wide
Web audience. Technical expertise is not required.

Places and Dates:

March 29-30, 2000: Vancouver, BC, Canada
April 27-28, 2000: Amstelveen, the Netherlands
May 31-June 1, 2000: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

More information: http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute/index.html

*	2000-03-06: DC-Education: F2F Downunder, February 19-20, 2000  

The meeting of the DC-Education Working Group in Australia in February was a
successful first venture into the realm of domain specific enhancements to
the basic Dublin Core element set. Thirty participants gathered in a rustic
lodge setting in the hills outside of Melbourne, Australia to extend
discussions begun at DC-7 in Frankfurt, Germany. The report and
recommendations from the meeting will soon be available for review and
discussion.  Highlights include proposals for encoding the intended audience
of the resource as well as indications of conformance of the resource to
formal standards. Various deployment alternatives were proposed for further
discussion in the broader community.  Other important discussion issues
included questions of mixing and matching metadata from related sets, and
how the community should address controversial topics such as measures of
quality and descriptions of pedagogy. These are desirable retrieval
characteristics for some communities, but are fraught with ideological
judgements that complicate the creation of interoperable metadata. The
report will be discussed on the DC-Education list
(http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-education/) and will be posted to
DC-General in the near future.

Project and Tool Updates

2000-02-22: New Project - Australasian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL) 

The Australasian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL)
http://avel.library.uq.edu.au  is a gateway to quality Australasian
engineering and information technology web-based resources. AVEL project
documentation (including metadata schema and metadata manual) can be found
at http://avel.library.uq.edu.au/AVELdocumentation.html 

Project Summary: Foundation Project (submitted by Eileen Quam) 

The Foundations Project is a State of Minnesota multi-agency collaborative
project aimed at improving public access to environmental and natural
resources data and information.  The focus of the Project is on developing
intuitive and easy to use search tools and strategies. Staff and agency
participants catalog many kinds of electronic information resources using
qualified Dublin Core elements. These resources can be used to develop
advanced search and retrieval techniques that integrate access to this
information across agency Web sites. The search interface is called Bridges
(http://bridges.state.mn.us), signifying the metaphorical spanning of
information across Minnesota state agencies. Based on project research
findings and using principles of information architecture, a "blueprint"
specifying best practices for Minnesota state environmental agency Web sites
is being created. As the Foundations Project nears completion, efforts are
in place to bring the successes and blueprint to the remaining state
agencies. 

In summary, the project is working on: 

Consumer-oriented needs for environmental information and data maintained or
made available through Minnesota state agencies;

An approach that will provide integrated access to environmental information
and data consistent with emerging technology standards, guidelines and best
practices, including qualified Dublin Core, controlled vocabulary, and
standardized application of metadata;

Evaluating the approach's effectiveness for integrated access, using
external reviewers who represent a wide range of public points of view;

Designing, evaluating and expediting guidelines for documentation, thesaurus
and metadata implementation, which promotes responsive search and retrieval
procedures;

Providing skilled assistance to state agencies that catalog environmental
information;

Preparing a workable blueprint to improve discovery and retrieval of
environmental information resources, based on research and testing
throughout the project;

Conducting outreach to inform key user groups and promote implementation of
the blueprint throughout state government. 

The Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources, Information Policy
Council and the Environmental Quality Board receive periodic updates.
Completion date for the project will be June 30, 2000. 

For more information contact: Eileen Quam, Project Coordinator & Metadata
Specialist ([log in to unmask]) 

Web Site Changes

2000-02-29: Updated the FAQ (http://purl.org/dc/education/index.htm)

Please send questions, comments, or submissions to DCMI Newsletter editor,
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