DCMI Update

October 2001

Online Version: http://dublincore.org/news/communications/nl2001-10.shtml


ACTION:
*       DC-2001: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata
Applications, October 22-26, 2001, Tokyo, Japan
[http://www.nii.ac.jp/dc2001/]
*       2001-09-21, Two new documents are now available for public comment
until October 19, 2001. These two documents describe how Dublin Core
metadata can be encoded in RDF / XML, and give practical examples.  Comments
should be sent to the DC-General mailing list.
*       Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF / XML
[http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/09/20/dcmes-xml/]
*       Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in RDF / XML
[http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/08/29/dcq-rdf-xml/]
*       DC-General Mailing List:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-general.html


*       2001-09-20, Government Application Profile is now available for
comment.  This working draft was prepared by the "Managing Information for
e-Government" group in conjunction with the DCMI Government working group.
Comments should be sent to the DC-Government mailing list.
*       DCMI Government Application Profile
[http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/09/17/gov-application-profile/]
*       DCMI Government working group:
http://dublincore.org/groups/government/
*       DC-Government mailing list:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-government.html

*       2001-09-18, Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
(DCMI) is now available for comment until October 19, 2001.  Comments should
be sent to the DC-General mailing list.
*       DCMI Namespace Policy
[http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/09/17/dcmi-namespace/]
*       DC-General mailing list:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-general.html

*       2001-09-17, Administrative Dublin Core (A-Core) Elements Proposal
*       This proposal is now available for discussion in the DCMI
Administrative Metadata Working Group.  Based on the discussion, the authors
will revise the document and present a new version at the DC-9 Workshop in
Tokyo in October 2001.
*       Proposal: http://dublincore.org/groups/admin/proposal-20010910.shtml
*       Working Group: http://dublincore.org/groups/admin/


NEWS BRIEFS

*       2001-10-05, NISO, the National Information Standards Organization
and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) announce the approval by ANSI
of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (Z39.85-2001)
*       More Information
[http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0110&L=dc-general&F=&S=&P=21
42]

*       2001-09-20, DCMI Libraries working group meeting notes are now
available.  This meeting was an official DCMI-Libraries working group event
that was held in conjunction with the International Federation of Library
Associations conference.  The main topic on the agenda was a discussion of
the draft Dublin Core Library Application Profile.
*       Meeting Notes:
http://dublincore.org/groups/libraries/report-20010822.shtml

NEW PROJECTS AND TOOLS

*       New Tool: MKDoc
*       2001-08-22, MKDoc is a web site content management system that can
produce HTML and RDF qualified Dublin Core metadata for every documents.  It
also supports Dublin Core metadata via the generation of RSS 1.0 syndication
feeds.
*       http://mkdoc.com/

*       New Project:ExLibris Special Collections Directory
*       2001-08-04, The ExLibris Special Collections Directory seeks to
provide a comprehensive directory of special collections libraries that
support digitization and make content such as manuscripts, art images, and
electronic texts available over the Internet.

WEB SITE CHANGES

*       Usage Board files have been moved from the
dublincore.org/groups/usage/ directory to the dublincore.org/usage/
directory.  Some files and directories have also been renamed.


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