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DCMI Update Volume 1, Number 6 - June 2000 (A Summary of activities from May 2000) Online Version: <http://purl.org/dc/news/nl2000-06.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. Previous workshops have attracted librarians, museum informatics specialists, archivists, digital library researchers, government information providers, publishers, and content specialists from a broad cross-section of sectors and disciplines. Participants are expected to be familiar with Dublin Core basics and should have expertise and interest in advancing the state of Dublin Core standards or deployment. Representatives of other metadata initiatives or standards interested in liaison with DCMI are also encouraged to participate. http://www.ifla.org/udt/dc8/call.htm News Briefs 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 (<http://purl.org/dc/groups/languages.htm>). The Italian translation was done by ICCU (the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information). http://www.iccu.sbn.it/dublinco.html ICCU is responsable for setting guidelines and for producing and disseminating standard National and International cataloguing rules covering all types of materials ranging from manuscripts to multimedia documents. 2000-05-06: French translation of the Dublin Core Element Set, v. 1.1 is now available The French translation of the Dublin Core Element Set, v. 1.1 is now available. Translated by Anne-Marie Vercoustre, an RDF definition of DCES 1.1 in French is also included. <http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~vercoust/METADATA/DC-fr.1.1.html> 2000-05-04: New Project: Francois Rabelais University is indexed with Dublin Core The website for the Francois Rabelais University allows users to access several parts of the University library and five different departmental library sites. The web site also gives access to the OPAC of the University Library and the CESR (Center for Higher Renaissance Studies). (<http://www.scd.univ-tours.fr/>) Suggestions, article or item submissions and any comments may be sent to [log in to unmask] Deadline for submissions is the 20th of each month. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%