DCMI Update
April 2000 (a summary of activities from March 2000)
A Monthly Newsletter from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Online Version: http://purl.org/dc/news/nl2000-04.htm
* News:
* 2000-03-28: CEN Press Release
(http://www.cenorm.be/news/press_notices/metadata.htm) on the acceptance of
Dublin Core as a CEN Workshop Agreement.
The CEN/ISSS Workshop on Metadata for Multimedia Information -
Dublin Core (MMI-DC), has issued a press release on their acceptance of
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 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
programs.
Reported by Leif Andresen
Announcement on DC Standards Mailing List
(http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-standards/2000-02/0000.html)
* 2000-03-28: Resource Description Framework (RDF) Specification
published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schema Specification
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-rdf-schema-20000327/) has received editorial
revisions and today is published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. This
specification describes how to use RDF to describe RDF vocabularies. The
specification also defines a basic vocabulary for this purpose, as well as
an extensibility mechanism to anticipate future additions to RDF.
Advancement of a document to Candidate Recommendation
(http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/tr.html#RecsCR) is an
explicit call to those outside of the related Working Groups or the W3C
itself for implementation and technical feedback.
* 2000-03-28: Dublin Core Element Set now available in Maori
As part of a bilingual site for New Zealand educators
(www.tki.org.nz), users will be able to search either in English or Maori
(http://www.tki.org.nz/dcmaori/) languages or both. The Dublin Core metadata
element set will facilitate discovery of the quality online information,
services and resources to the education community.
* 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:
April 27-28, 2000: Amstelveen, the Netherlands
May 31-June 1, 2000: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
[Workshop information and registration
(http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute/index.html)]
* Web Site Changes
* 2000-03-28: Updated the FAQ (http://purl.org/dc/education/index.htm)
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