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DCMI Update
Volume 1, Number 1 - January
2000
(A Summary of activities from December 1999)
Action!
- Usage Working Group is in the process of
balloting qualifiers; results of the balloting can
be expected in February 2000.
News
Briefs
- 1999-12-16 IETF RFC
2731 "Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML" is
now available.
This document is the end product of the
substantial efforts of John Kunze, who developed
its antecedent, an Internet Draft, managed the
revision of the draft, and its evolution into the
present document. The Dublin Core community is
indebted to John for his substantial efforts in
bringing this important document to fruition, and
to the many others who contributed to the evolution
of this important convention for expressing
metadata in HTML.
- 1999-12- 06 DCMI web site announces
mirror sites in Australia
and the U.K.
Working Group Updates
- 1999-12-21 New provisional working
group: DC-Registry
- 1999-12-14 New provisional working
group: DC-Government
The Government working group is a forum for
individuals involved in implementing Dublin Core
within and between government agencies. The working
group will also be active in promoting use of DC
within government agencies considering developing
metadata-based information services.
- 1999-12-07 New provisional working
group: DC-Libraries
The Libraries working group will work towards
fostering increased operability between DC and
library metadata by identifying issues and
solutions; keeping the library community informed
on DC developments; encouraging experimentation
more widely with Dublin Core in libraries; building
a library implementors community and exploring the
need for a cross-domain namespace to register
non-DC elements and qualifiers needed by the
library community.
Advisory
Committee Updates
Workshop News
Project and Tool Updates
- 1999-12-17 New Project:
MetaChem
MetaChem is a single Web-based focal point for
access to chemistry information resources of all
kinds.
- 1999-12-17 New Project URL: PhysNet
PhysNet now has a new URL (
http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/PhysNet/physnet.html
). PhysNet offers a set of lists of links to all
Physics Institutions worldwide ordered by country
and town and a search facility on the Web through
the local Physics Institutions for locally stored
documents.
Web Site Changes
- 1999-12-20 Incorporated "Dublin Core in the
Press" into the "Selected Publications and
Presentations" page.
- 1999-12-13 Updated and reorganized the FAQ page; added the
question, "Is there metadata on the Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative's web site pages?"
- 1999-12-03 Collapsed the different document
directories for Recommendations, Proposed
Recommendations, Working Drafts, and Notes into a
single Documents directory.
Suggestions, article or item submissions and any
comments may be sent to dc@oclc.org. Deadline
for submissions is the 20th of each month.
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