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Best wishes,
Adrian
>From: Paul Miller [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:35 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: UK Government adopts the Dublin Core
>
>All,
>as of yesterday, the UK Government has officially adopted the Dublin Core
>(www.dublincore.org/) for creating simple metadata about government
>resources and services.
>
>As most of you should be aware, the NOF Technical Standards
>(www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/nof/technicalstandards/) already say that
>project resources *should* be described using the Dublin Core, and this
>is another nice example of the close fit between NOF standards and those
>being increasingly deployed in the wider public sector.
>
>The UK Government Metadata Framework (www.govtalk.gov.uk/egif/home.html,
>and select the 'metadata' tab) forms part of the broader e-Government
>Interoperability Framework (e-GIF), already mentioned in the NOF
>Guidelines. The core of the e-GIF is mandatory across the public sector,
>and extensions such as the metadata framework are intended to also become
>mandatory after a period of implementation by early adopters.
>
>NOF projects implementing the Dublin Core are therefore in line with the
>broad thrust of Government strategy in this area, and also serve to give
>their host organisations useful experience in utilising Dublin Core, prior
>to the e-GIF mandating it for all of those organisations' services and
>resources.
>
>Paul
>
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Web Editor, Birkbeck College, University of London
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