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DC-General folks, We are pleased to announce that DCMI has contracted with Makx Dekkers to provide project management services to the Initiative beginning March 1, 2001. Makx's strong background in standards management and history of participation in DCMI make him superbly qualified to help DCMI reach its goals and deliver recommendations and guidelines more effectively. DCMI has had a strong international flavor since its early days, and we feel that Makx's European experiences and perspective will further strengthen DCMI management. Makx has been involved in development and implementation of standards for information networking since the mid-eighties. He contributed to the development of standards such as Z39.50/ISO SR for search and retrieve, ISO ILL for interlibrary loan and the GEDI standard for electronic document interchange. He became involved in Dublin Core activities in 1997 and has been a member of the Dublin Core Advisory Committee since 1998. Makx worked at Pica in the Netherlands until 1997 where he was involved in a number of major European co-operation projects and managed the development and deployment of networked information services. At Price Waterhouse Coopers from 1997, he has been consulting to the European Commission, the European Committee for Standardisation CEN, co-operative library projects in Italy and Greece, and several projects under the EC framework programmes for Research and Technological Development. Since early 2000, he is the overall project manager for the SCHEMAS project. Other areas that he has been involved in include Trust and Confidence and Cultural Diversity in IT-based products and services. Makx is a Dutch national with a university degree in Theoretical Chemistry, Computer Science and History of Science from the University of Utrecht, and lives and works in Luxembourg. He has worked in Dutch, English, French, German and Italian and has varying competences in a number of other languages. Welcome, Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Boa vinda, Benvenuto, Makx! For the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, stu Stuart Weibel ------------------------- Senior Research Scientist OCLC Office of Research Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative [log in to unmask] http://purl.org/net/weibel +1.614,764.6081 (voice) +1.614.764.2344