DCMI Update
Volume 1, Number 7 - July 2000
(A summary of activities from June/July 2000)
Online Version: http://purl.org/dc/news/nl2000-07.htm
ACTION!
2000-06-01: The 8th International Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop
(DC8): Call for Participation
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, in conjunction with the National
Library of Canada, the IFLA UDT program, and OCLC, is pleased to announce
the 8th International Dublin Core Metadata Workshop, to be held October 4-6,
2000 at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa, Canada. More Information:
http://www.ifla.org/udt/dc8/call.htm
News Briefs:
2000-07-11: DUBLIN CORE RELEASES RECOMMENDED QUALIFIERS
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, an organization leading the development
of international standards to improve electronic resource management and
information discovery, today announced the formal recommendation of the
Dublin Core Qualifiers. The addition of the DC Qualifiers enhances the
semantic precision of the existing DC Metadata Element Set.
Press Release: http://www.zotgroup.com/development/dcmi/dcqualifiers.html
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: http://purl.org/DC/
Dublin Core Qualifiers:
http://purl.org/dc/documents/rec/dcmes-qualifiers-20000711.htm
2000-07-11: NISO Draft Standard: Z39.85-200X The Dublin Core Metadata
Element Set now available for comment and balloting
A new draft of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES), based on
version 1.1 of DCMES, is now available for comment by the general public as
well as for ballot by NISO (US National Information Standards Organization)
voting members. The NISO Draft Standard is available as a PDF file linked
from http://www.niso.org/Z3985.html Public comments are welcome. Links from
this page contain forms for submitting comments, which should be directed
back to NISO. The ballot and comment period for DCMES is July 1 to August
15, 2000.
2000-06-02: Dublin Core Element Set, v. 1.1 now available in Italian
The Dublin Core Element Set has now been translated into more than 20
languages. A list of the translations can be found on the Multiple Languages
Interest Group page. The Italian translation was done by ICCU (the Central
Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic
Information).
Multiple Languages Interest Group: http://purl.org/dc/groups/languages.htm
Dublin Core Element Set, v. 1.1 (Italian):
http://www.iccu.sbn.it/dublinco.html
ICCU (Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for
Bibliographic Information): http://www.iccu.sbn.it/homepage.htm
Project and Tool Updates
2000-07-18: Tool Upgrade: DC-dot is now conformant with the recently
recommended Dublin Core Qualifiers.
DC-dot, UKOLN's web-based Dublin Core generator and editor
(http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdoc/) is now conformant with the Dublin
Core Metadata Element Set, version 1.1: Reference Description and the
recently recommended Dublin Core Qualifiers.
2000-07-12: New Project: The Victorian Education Channel
Home Page: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/ (Site is still under
development)
The Victorian Education Channel (an educational gateway for the State of
Victoria, Australia) has been developed to integrate access to educational
information and services available on the web. In particular, it provides
integrated access to resources from the Department of Education, Employment
and Training (DEET), Victoria and associated providers. It also supports
discovery of other resources pertinent to Victorian education. The Channel
is for teachers, students, parents and the community - anyone requiring
information with an educational focus - and covers all sectors of education
from early school to tertiary and vocational.
2000-06-25: Tool Upgrade: DC-dot now provides support for the W3C XHTML 1.0
Recommendation
DC-doc, UKOLN's web-based Dublin Core generator and editor
(http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/) now provides support for the W3C
XHTML 1.0 recommendation.
2000-06-10: New Tool: Online Dublin Core Extraction Service
Dan Connolly of the W3C has created an online Dublin Core Extraction service
(http://www.w3.org/2000/06/dc-extract/form.html), which uses XSLT to extract
RDF Dublin Core metadata from XHTML pages. The default transformation for
this form, dc-extract.xsl, converts from the format given in "Encoding
Dublin Core Metadata in HTML" (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt) by John
Kunze and produces RDF (http://www.w3.org/RDF/). For pages that are not
well-formed XHTML, the page to be processed can first be piped through Dave
Raggett's HTML Tidy, courtesy of the online tidy service
(http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/tidy). Connolly stated that he "wrote the guts of
dc-extract.xsl on my palm pilot in Amsterdam after WWW9 (http://www9.org/)
in an effort to show how easy it is to use XSLT to extract RDF from
real-world data
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Mar/0103.html)
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