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Dear all, This is a cross-posting from the DC-Education Community email list: please join that list if you want to be involved in the work described below! http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-EDUCATION.html After a hiatus following the DC2007 Conference in Singapore, we are now getting under way with the activities the Community decided on at the Working Session there, and on the e-mail list concurrently with the Conference. Please note the *Help Wanted *at the end of this email. For a full report on the meeting please go to the DC-Ed Community wiki: http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/ To briefly summarise: - The Community made a lot of progress in 2006/2007, meeting its objectives set in 2006, and gaining many new members. - In the meantime, new draft requirements for Dublin Core Application Profiles have emerged from the DC-Architecture work, which give considerable support to, and add more work to our AP activity. - Interest in developing profiles for educational metadata has steadily grown over the past year (see the Working Session Report for three examples; there is also work happening now in the UK at JISC-CETIS). - The Community has decided, in light of the strong interest in the community, and the work involved, to form a new Task Group to complete the DC Education Application Profile. The Task Group will be composed of people willing to carry out work; the Community as a whole will be kept informed via this email list and the Community wiki as normal; input will be sought and incorporated at every possible juncture. The Task Group will work via regular teleconferences and collaborative use of the wiki, Googledocs and any other tools we think of! - The Community has also acknowledged that, in order to carry out this work to a useful and usable standard, it would be extremely helpful to find some support for a funded project. - We seem to have settled on the term Application Profile Module to describe what we're doing with this AP. *Help wanted: *- Please disseminate this email to anyone you think might be interested, and encourage them to join this email list. - Please let me or Diane Hillmann know if you wish to take part in the DC-Ed AP Task Group; we will be setting a date for the first teleconference for the group very soon and if you want your availability included in setting this date, we can do so if you contact us in the next few days. You can still join the Task Group if you don't manage to get back to us by then, though. - Please let me or Diane Hillmann know if you know of any suitable funding streams around that could be used to support this work. Best wishes Sarah -- Sarah Currier Product Manager, Intrallect Ltd. Co-Moderator, Dublin Core Education Community http://www.intrallect.com 2nd Floor, Regent House Blackness Road Linlithgow EH49 7HU United Kingdom Tel: +44 870 234 3933 Mob: +44 (0)7980855801 E-mail: [log in to unmask] --