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Hello, There is a revised draft of a DCMI Namespace Policy guideline on the DCMI website at the following URL: http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/03/09/dcmi-namespace/ This revised draft is available for 1 week of review and comment. After which the revised draft will be submitted to a expert committee (selected by the DCMI Directorate) for final review. Highlights of the revisions (based on discussions from the DC-Architecture WG): 1) DCES namespace has been correct to remain consistent with DCES namespace published to date. http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ 2) Added a policy about persistence VI. Persistence Policy DCMI recognizes that people and applications depend on the persistence of formal documents and machine processable schemas made available on the DCMI Website and through the DCMI metadata registry. The DCMI pledges that as far as they are able, formal documents and metadata schemas will continue to be available throughout the life of the DCMI. Where a persistent resource is modified, a change history will be archived. In the event that DCMI is disbanded, then any organization will be granted the right to make a copy (at a different URI) of all public persistent DCMI resources, so long as (1) they are not modified, (2) are preserved in their entirety and (3) are made available to others free of charge. 3) "URI-based namespaces" was changed to "XML namespaces" (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names). Cheers Tod Matola DCMI/OCLC Office of Research [log in to unmask]