DCMI Liaisons and Other Metadata Activities

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has relationships with other standards activities and metadata initiatives:

CEN (European Committee for Standardization)

CEN is a consortium of European national standards organizations which supports the implementation of technical standards in Europe in conjunction with worldwide bodies and European partners. The CEN Dublin Core Workshop Agreement provides a forum for the discussion and support of Dublin Core applications in Europe. For more information: http://www.cenorm.be/isss/

Liaison Contact: Leif Andresen, Danish National Library Authority

IEEE/LOM (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)

IEEE promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electrical and information technologies and sciences. The IEEE/LOM (Learning Object Metadata) working group and the DCMI have executed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining areas of mutual interest and cooperation in the area of standards for instructional resources. For more information: http://ltsc.ieee.org

IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open, international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. The IETF affords a straight forward standardization path for Internet protocols; the Dublin Core Element Set, v. 1.0 was first standardized in the IETF as RFC 2413. For more information: http://www.ietf.org/

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29: MPEG Standardization of Coded Representation of Audio, Picture, Multimedia and Hypermedia Information

DCMI and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 maintain a liaison to promote communication between these two activities. For more information: http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc29/

Liaison Contact: Jane Hunter,

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36: Standards For Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training

DCMI and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36 maintain a liaison to promote communication between these two activities. For more information: http://jtc1sc36.org

Liaison Contact: Jon Mason, Education.Au Limited

METS Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation. More Information: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

NDLTD is an international initiative to promote and support the encoding, storage, and delivery of theses and dissertations in electronic form. NDLTD has designated the Dublin Core as the foundation for their metadata standard and the two organizations maintain a liaison to assure compatible evolution. For more information: http://www.ndltd.org/

NISO (North American Information Standardization Organization)

Dublin Core, v. 1.1 was approved as Z39.85 under the newly-established NISO Fast Track process. For more information: http://www.niso.org/

Open Archives Initiative

The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content on the Internet. OAI has selected the Dublin Core as the common interoperability metadata set in order to leverage the cross community consensus developed over the years in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. For more information: http://www.openarchives.org/

RDF Core Working Group

The RDF Core WG is chartered to complete the work on RDF vocabulary description present in the RDF Schema Candidate Recommendation. The Working Group will address questions and issues raised on the public comments feedback list and the RDF Interest Group list during the Candidate Recommendation period and will produce an updated W3C specification. For more information: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/

Liaison Contact: Dave Beckett, ILRT, Institute for Learning and Research Technology University of Bristol

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3) develops specifications, guidelines, software, and tools to support Web infrastructure, including HTML, RDF, and XML. Each of which has a role in the syntactic encoding of Dublin Core metadata. More information is available at: http://www.w3.org/

Metadata associated with this resource: http://dublincore.org/about/liaisons/index.shtml.rdf

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