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It is my pleasure to announce the re-establishment of the DC Date Working Group. The following charter for DC Date Working Group 2003-2004 has been approved by the DC Advisory Board: The purpose of the Date WG is to provide a forum for considering issues related to the representation of dates in metadata. The specific goals of the WG are: 1. Provide an outlet for the discussion of issues related to the representation of dates in metadata 2. Foster the adoption of standards and practices that will enhance the interoperability of date information conveyed in Dublin Core metadata 3. In consultation with other interested DCMI WG's: - identify categories of commonly-recorded dates which cannot be satisfactorily represented using ISO 8601 or other well-established international standards governing the representation of dates - investigate options to provide for the interoperable representation of these types of dates Work item for consideration: - review, investigate, consider, and propose solutions for problematic date encoding cases identified (in particular those identified by other DC WGs including known cases currently identified by the DC Libraries WG & DC Collections WG) Interested parties are invited to join the DC Date WG (to sign up for the discussion list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-date.html) The initial order of business for the WG will be to review the charter and to agree on work items. The web page for the DC Date WG: http://www.dublincore.org/groups/date/ Regards, Eric Childress, chair, DC Date WG Eric Childress Consulting Product Support Specialist OCLC WorldCat Content Management Division OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. 6565 Frantz Rd., Dublin, OH 43017 USA US: (800) 848-5878 or (614) 764-6000 Fax: (614) 718-7361 email: [log in to unmask]