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Please note the following news items, published today on the DCMI Web site. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important information related to registration for DC-2004 2004-09-20, The deadline for Early Bird registration has been extended to 20 September 2004. Please note that online registration will be closed on 30 September 2004, to ensure that your payment is received before the start of the conference. On-site registration in Shanghai is possible but please be aware that payment on-site can only be made in cash. Register now! http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/regedit/submit1.asp -------------------------------------------------------------------- DCMI Status report September 2004 published 2004-09-20, Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published a new status report of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, covering the period March-September 2004. More information... http://dublincore.org/news/communications/statusreport-200409.shtml -------------------------------------------------------------------- Usage Board announces new DCMI term "Provenance" 2004-09-20, The Usage Board has announced the approval of a new term: "Provenance"". The full text of the decision http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/2004/2004-02.Collection-terms.shtml can be found from the Usage Board Decisions Web page http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/. The terms have been added to DCMI Metadata Terms http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ and related documents, as well as to the RDF schema provided by DCMI http://purl.org/dc/terms/ and to the DCMI Registry http://dublincore.org/dcregistry/. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-conference "Metadata for Interoperability in the Global Corporate Environment" on 10 October 2004 at DC-2004 2004-09-20, The pre-conference "Metadata for Interoperability in the Global Corporate Environment" http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/english/prog/pro-co.htm will take place on 10 October 2004 in Shanghai, China, in conjunction with DC-2004. This meeting is organized by the DCMI Global Corporate Circle http://stage.dublincore.org/groups/corporate/ in co-operation with the CEN/ISSS Workshop on Dublin Core metadata http://www.cenorm.be/isss/mmi-dc. On-line registration for the pre-conference is open until 30 September 2004 through the conference's online registration facility. On-site registration is possible against cash payment only. Please note that a second pre-conference "Supporting the Reuse of Digital Educational Resources", organized by the DCMI Education Working Group in co-operation with the U.S. National Science Digital Library initiative, has been cancelled. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Makx Dekkers e-mail: [log in to unmask]