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DCMI Update
Volume 1, Number 6 - June
2000
(A Summary of activities from May 2000)
Action!
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2000-06-01: The 8th
International Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Workshop (DC8): Call for Participation
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, in
conjunction with the National Library of Canada,
the IFLA UDT program, and OCLC, is pleased to
announce the 8th International Dublin Core
Metadata Workshop, to be held October 4-6, 2000
at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa,
Canada.
Previous workshops have attracted librarians,
museum informatics specialists, archivists,
digital library researchers, government
information providers, publishers, and content
specialists from a broad cross-section of sectors
and disciplines. Participants are expected to be
familiar with Dublin Core basics
and should have expertise and interest in
advancing the state of Dublin Core standards or
deployment. Representatives of other
metadata initiatives or standards interested in
liaison with DCMI are also encouraged to
participate.
News
Briefs
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2000-06-02: Dublin Core Element Set,
v. 1.1 now available in Italian
The Dublin Core Element Set has now been
translated into more than 20 languages. A list of
the translations can be found on the Multiple Languages
Interest Group page. The Italian translation
was done by ICCU (the Central Institute for the
Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for
Bibliographic Information).
ICCU is responsible for setting guidelines and
for producing and disseminating standard National
and International cataloguing rules covering all
types of materials ranging from manuscripts to
multimedia documents.
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2000-05-06: French translation of the
Dublin Core Element Set, v. 1.1 is now
available
The
French translation of the Dublin Core Element
Set, v. 1.1 is now available. Translated by
Anne-Marie Vercoustre, an RDF definition of DCES
1.1 in French is also included.
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2000-05-04: New Project: Francois
Rabelais University is indexed with Dublin
Core
The website for the Francois
Rabelais University allows users to access
several parts of the University library and five
different departmental library sites. The web
site also gives access to the OPAC of the
University Library and the CESR (Center for
Higher Renaissance Studies).
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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