DCMI Architecture Wiki

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Documents and resources under construction

The DCMI Architecture Forum is currently working on the following documents:

DC in XML

• Expressing Dublin Core metadata using XML - DC-XML 2006-05-29: the version that went out for public comment. example DC-XML instances

• Release notes for DC-XML 2006-05-29

• DC-XML and W3C XML Schema - notes on using W3C XML Schema with DC-XML 2006-05-29

• Summary of Comments Received

• Report to DC Architecture WG list

• Expressing Dublin Core metadata using XML - DC-XML 2006-07-24: a revised version using the dcx:statement construct. example DC-XML instances

• Expressing Dublin Core metadata using XML (DC-XML-Full) - DC-XML-Full 2006-09-18: a revised version of DC-XML 2006-07-04 (using the dcxf:statement construct and supporting Value Class). example DC-XML-Full instances

• Expressing Dublin Core metadata using XML (DC-XML-Min) - DC-XML-Min 2006-09-18: a new format supporting a subset of the DCAM description model (using QNames for property URIs and supporting Value Class). example DC-XML-Min instances

DC-Text

• DC-Text: A Text Syntax for Dublin Core Metadata

Description Set Profile

• Initial draft of the Dublin Core Description Set Profile spec.

Other

• Guidelines for using resource identifiers in Dublin Core metadata - DRAFT

Other work:

• A summary of the current situation w.r.t. URIs for DCMI's XML schemas is available here with agreement being to move forward on the basis of proposal 1(b).

Published/stable documents and resources

• DCMI Abstract Model

• Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML

• Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML

• Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in RDF / XML

• Expressing Dublin Core in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements

• Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

• DCMI Metadata Terms

• Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description

• DCMI term declarations represented in RDF schema language

• XML schemas to support the Guidelines for implementing DC in XML recommendation

• DCMI Architecture Forum home page

• DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list archives

Example descriptions

• Example description based on the proposed Adaptability Application Profile

Other related work

• Linking DC Descriptions to ODRL Expressions

• DCMI IEEE/LTSC Taskforce wiki

Historical developments

• Log of old work

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