Dear all,
The DCMI Web site was published yesterday with new content for various
working and interest groups and several other sections. Below I include
four news items that you will find on http://dublincore.org/.
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New Question and Answer service AskDCMI installed
2003-04-07, Today, DCMI introduces a new Question and Answer service for the
community: AskDCMI (http://askdcmi.askvrd.org/). This service is based on
the virtual reference infrastructure developed by the Information Institute
of Syracuse as part of the Virtual Reference Desk project. A number of
experts from the Usage Board and the Advisory Board have agreed to be
available to answer questions from the community. Selected questions and
answers will be available in a searchable archive.
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Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML become DCMI Recommendation
and new XML schemas published
2003-04-02, The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the Guidelines
for implementing Dublin Core in XML
(http://dublincore.org/documents/2003/04/02/dc-xml-guidelines/) is now a
DCMI Recommendation. This document considers both simple (unqualified) DC
and qualified DC applications. At the same time, a new set of XML schemas
(http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/2003/04/02/notes/) is published.
These support the encoding of Qualified Dublin Core metadata records,
including the use of element refinements and encoding schemes, and follow
the conventions described in Guidelines for expressing Dublin Core in XML.
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DC-2003 Conference & Workshop Call for Papers
(http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/call.html)
Contributed Papers Deadline: May 3, 2003
Other important dates for contributed works
(http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/dates.html)
2003-04-04, The DC2003 Conference and Workshop
(http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/index.html) will be held in Seattle,
Washington, USA on 28 September 2003 through 2 October 2003. The Bell Harbor
International Conference Center
(http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/venue.html) has been chosen as the
Conference and Workshop venue. Two pre-conference workshops are in
planning: (1) Metadata and Search
(http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/preconference-corporate.html)
sponsored by the DCMI Global Corporate Circle, and (2) Meta data Primer
(http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/preconference-metadata.html) sponsored
by the Information School of the University of Washington. More info:
http://dublincore.org/news/index.shtml#dc2003call.
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Dublin Core Metadata Element Set standard has been approved
2003-04-08, The DCMI Directorate is pleased to report that the Dublin Core
Metadata Element Set standard has been approved. The final text of the ISO
15836 standard and the balloting report, including the response to comments,
on the SC4 document log on the ISO TC46/SC4 website:
http://www.niso.org/international/SC4/sc4docs.html.
This approval is a welcome culmination of an incremental process to bring
the Dublin Core metadata element set to a broad world-wide constituency.
This process has involved CEN in Europe and NISO in the US. As an
international standard, it will be easier for many organizations to adopt
and promote the use of Dublin Core to enhance resource discovery using the
Internet. More info:
http://dublincore.org/news/index.shtml#elementset20030408
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Makx Dekkers [log in to unmask]
Managing Director tel: +352 2636 0150
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative fax: +352 2636 0151
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