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Subject: Work begins on DC-Ed application profile
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:25:28 -0800
From: Stuart Sutton <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Stuart Sutton <[log in to unmask]>
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The DC-Education Working Group will be using its new wiki at the DCMI
Web site to manage the WG's work on a formal DC-Education application
profile (AP). The URL of the wiki will be showing up soon as a link off
the WG's homepage. [1] While there has been much discussion of such an
AP in the DC-Ed community dating from its WG meeting in Melbourne,
Australia in 2000 and the publication of Heery and Patel's article in
Ariadne that same year [2], no formal work on an AP has been undertaken.
The reasons for the long delay are two-fold: (1) the discussions from
2000 onward envisioned an AP that incorporated select elements from the
IEEE LOM; and (2) the function and means for defining and declaring such
an AP have taken some time to mature in the DCMI community. While the
mechanisms for declaring an AP that includes DC properties and LOM
elements is advancing slowly, the WG decided to proceed with work on the
AP in anticipation of a near-term solution. Work on defining and
declaring machine-addressable AP's has moved forward with CEN CWA14855 -
Dublin Core Application Profile Guidelines [3] and CEN CWA Guidelines
for Machine-processable Representation of Dublin Core Application
Profiles: Final Draft [4]. In addition, through the diligent work of
the DC Libraries WG and the DCMI Usage Board, a DCMI conforming AP for
the library community is nearing approval.[5] The DC-Libraries work
provides a sound framework upon which to model the DC-Ed work.
As a result of these developments and a consensus of the WG participants
at the face-to-face meeting in Shanghai, the work on a DC-Education AP
has begun. The first task task is the appointment of a volunteer
Drafting Committee that will prepare drafts of the AP for general
discussion by the WG. On the wiki, we have put up the basic template
that we will be using for this development work. Volunteers and
recommendations of others to serve as members of the Drafting Committee
are welcome. Periodically, over the course of the next six months, the
Committee will submit drafts to this list for discussion. There will be
a full session on the AP when the WG meets for DC-2005 in Madrid.
Stuart
[1] http://dublincore.org/educationwiki
[2] Heery, R., & Patel, M., (September 2000) Application Profiles:
mixing and matching metadata schemas. Ariadne. Issue 25. Available:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/app-profiles/
[3]
http://www.cenorm.be/cenorm/businessdomains/businessdomains/isss/cwa/cwa
14855.asp
[4] http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cen/ws-mmi-dc/
[5]
http://www.dublincore.org/documents/2004/09/10/library-application-profi
le/
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