Dear all,
The DCMI Web site was published earlier today. Below I include four news
items that you will find on http://dublincore.org/.
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DC-2003 Paper Submission Date Extended
2003-04-29, The Contributed Papers deadline for DC-2003 has been extended
from May 3, 2003 to May 17, 2003. For more information, see the DC-2003 Web
site Call for Papers: http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/call.html
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Finland becomes the first DCMI Affiliate
2003-05-05, DCMI and the National Library of Finland are pleased to announce
that Finland has become DCMI's first National Affiliate. The DCMI Affiliate
program is intended to provide a stronger link between local communities of
practice and the Initiative. Affiliates will help promote the adoption of
Dublin Core specifications, and provide a training and consulting foundation
to help promulgate adoption of DC specifications. They will also maintain
translations of base DCMI standards and documentation as appropriate for the
locale. Affiliates will help support the infrastructure and management of
DCMI, and in return, will assume a growing governance role in the
Initiative. More info:
http://dublincore.org/news/index.shtml#findland20030505
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Usage Board Meeting Announced
2003-05-05, The next Usage Board meeting will be held at Cornell University
in Ithaca, New York, on 16-17 May 2003. Interested members of the Dublin
Core community should contact the Usage Board chair, Tom Baker at
mailto:[log in to unmask] for further information.
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DC-2003 Pre-Conference Workshops Announced
2003-04-29, Two DC-2003 pre-conference workshops will be offered on Sunday,
28 September 2003:
Metadata Search
(http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/preconference-corporate.html)
sponsored by the DCMI Corporate Circle. This all day workshop will focus on
internal or site search technology, as opposed to external, Internet or web
search technology (although some technology is applicable to both internal
and external search applications). There will be presentations by experts,
implementation case studies from our community, demonstrations by search
technology vendors, and lots of time for Q&A with our experts,
practitioners, vendors, and among ourselves.
Metadata Primer
(http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/preconference-metadata.html) sponsored
by the Information School of the University of Washington. This all day
workshop will introduce the basics of metadata. In this primer, participants
will learn metadata's role in resource discovery, management, and
interoperability. We will cover the basics questions. "What is metadata?"
"What can metadata do?" "How does XML figure into this?" These questions and
more will be covered through interactive lectures and hands on computer
lab-based mini-projects. The primer will be team-taught by members of the
community of the Information School of the University of Washington and
other select instructors who actively work with metadata.
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State of the Dublin Core Initiative 2003 Published
2003-04-23, Makx Dekkers and Stuart Weibel have published the latest in the
series of State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative reports in the April
issue of DLib Magazine, the online journal for digital library applications.
This article highlights DC-2003, held last fall in Florence as well as other
progress in the past year.
Readers may access this article at:
http://dlib.org/dlib/april03/weibel/04weibel.html
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Makx Dekkers e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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