2005-06-13, The preliminary program for DC-2005, to be held in Madrid from 12 through 15 September, is now online. The program includes keynotes by Thomas Baker, Ricardo Baeza, Johannes Keizer and Eric Miller, presentations of 36 papers and project reports, a series of tutorials on metadata basics and numerous working group meetings.

2005-06-01, DCMI and the National Library Board Singapore are pleased to announce that Singapore has joined the DCMI Affiliate Program. With this new Affiliate, the DCMI Affiliate Program further extends its global coverage, underlining the facts that DCMI is an international initiative and that Dublin Core metadata is relevant in many countries and cultural environments. For more information on the DCMI Affiliate Program see: http://dublincore.org/about/affiliates/. For more information on the National Library Board Singapore see: http://www.nlb.gov.sg/.

2005-06-13, The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that Tom Baker has been appointed DCMI Director of Specifications and Documentation by the DCMI Board of Trustees. In this role, Tom will continue to chair the Usage Board and manage the Usage Board's documentation (see: http://dublincore.org/usage/). In the next months, Tom will look specifically at the requirements for documentation and maintenance in the short and medium term. We are happy that Tom has agreed to take on these responsibilities and expect that results of his activities will be available by the time we go to Madrid for DC-2005.

2005-06-03, New Zealand has announced its decision to join the DCMI Affiliate Program, with the participation of Archives New Zealand, the National Library and the State Services Commission. See for more information the media release at http://www.archives.govt.nz/docs/pdfs/MediaReleaseDCMI.pdf.

2005-06-13, The DCMI Usage Board is pleased to announce the creation of several new terms -- an encoding scheme for National Library of Medicine Classification; Instructional Method; and three elements related to the method, policy, and periodicity of collection accrual (see the Usage Board decisions page). The Usage Board will meet next on 9-10 September 2005, before DC-2005 in Madrid. Please contact Thomas Baker for further information.

2005-06-13, A new version of Using Dublin Core, the official user guide to Dublin Core metadata, is now available. The updated version includes guidance for new terms approved by the Usage Board, as well as new sections on the DCMI Abstract Model and references to newly recommended documentation available for implementers.

2005-06-13, The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that after the Public Comment period that ended in May 2005, the Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core Metadata are now published as a DCMI Recommendation.

2005-06-13, The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that after the Public Comment period that ended in May 2005, the document Element Refinement in Dublin Core Metadata that describes the concept and appropriate use of element refinement as used in Dublin Core metadata, is now published as a DCMI Recommended Resource.