DCMI Update

Volume 1, Number 4 - April 2000

• 2000-03-28: CEN Press Release on the acceptance of Dublin Core as a CEN Workshop Agreement.

  The CEN/ISSS Workshop on Metadata for Multimedia Information - Dublin Core (MMI-DC), has issued a press release on their acceptance of Dublin Core version 1.1 as a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA). It will be published with a foreword and with some formal changes of the references in DC 1.1.

  The workshop now continues the work with Guidance Information for the use of Dublin Core in Europe. The Guidance material is intended to bring together documentation on the use of Dublin Core in Europe in the following areas:

  • Strategic documentation (i.e.: outlining the reasons for choosing Dublin Core or another Metadata Element Set).
  • User guidelines.
  • Technical implementation guidelines

  In parallel with this activity, is a task for the workshop to maintain and promote a knowledge base for metadata for multimedia information (the "Observatory") to continually assess relationships between Dublin Core and other initiatives - in order to assist evolution of standardised metadata schemes. This knowledge base identifies the key activities currently being undertaken in Europe and across the world - the scope of these activities and related work in European projects and programs.

  Reported by Leif Andresen
  Announcement on DC Standards Mailing List

• 2000-03-28: Resource Description Framework (RDF) Specification published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schema Specification has received editorial revisions and today is published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. This specification describes how to use RDF to describe RDF vocabularies. The specification also defines a basic vocabulary for this purpose, as well as an extensibility mechanism to anticipate future additions to RDF. Advancement of a document to Candidate Recommendation is an explicit call to those outside of the related Working Groups or the W3C itself for implementation and technical feedback.

• 2000-03-28: Dublin Core Element Set now available in Maori

  As part of a bilingual site for New Zealand educators, users will be able to search either in English or Maori languages or both. The Dublin Core metadata element set will facilitate discovery of the quality online information, services and resources to the education community.

• 2000-02-16: CIMI Institute Announces three new venues for its workshop: Helping People Find What They Want: Implementing the Dublin Core in Museums

  This two day workshop focuses on information access and management issues in museums and cultural heritage organizations through the use of the CIMI recommendations for the Dublin Core metadata standard. This workshop is designed for museum and cultural heritage professionals, information managers, systems staff, and administrators looking for ways to better manage information resources and make them available to the broad World Wide Web audience. Technical expertise is not required.

  Places and Dates: [Workshop information and registration]

  April 27-28, 2000: Amstelveen, the Netherlands
  May 31-June 1, 2000: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Web Site Changes

• 2000-03-28: Updated the FAQ.

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