News
2001-01-29: Russian Translations of the Dublin
Core Element Set, v 1.1 and Dublin
Core Qualifiers now available
Full translations of Dublin Core Element Set version 1.1 and the
Dublin Core Qualifiers are available now in Russian and can be loaded from the
Russian Libraries Association.
2000-01-23: "Using Dublin Core" usage guide
is now available in French.
2001-01-02: Dublin Core now available in Polish
2000-12-06: DCMI Press Release - E-Learning Takes Important
Step Forward
The Learning Technology Standards Committee Learning
Objects Metadata (LTSC-LOM) Working Group of the IEEE (Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI) today announced their joint commitment to develop
interoperable metadata for learning, education and training. The
joint Memorandum of Understanding is signed by officers representing
the LOM Working Group and DCMI. The document, regarding the IEEE
standard P1484.12, is co-signed by representatives of concurring
projects: ARIADNE (Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring
and Distribution Networks for Europe), EdNA (Education Network
Australia), GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials), and the IMS
Global Learning Consortium.[Press
Release] [Memorandum
of Understanding]
2000-11-10: Presentations from DC-8 Workshop
PowerPoint and HTML versions of presentations made at the DC-8
Workshop in Ottawa are now available. http://purl.org/dc/workshops/dc8conference/agenda-resources.htm
2000-10-18: New Project:
Picture Australia
The Picture Australia service has been provided for use by all Australians
to discover our heritage as documented in pictures. Through a single access point,
it is possible to search the distributed image collections of many significant
cultural institutions, without having to know where the images are held.
2000-10-16: New Tool: Metabrowser
Metabrowser is a Web Browser that shows Metadata and Web Pages simultaneously.
[More]
The 8th International Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop
(DC8):
Call for Participation: http://www.ifla.org/udt/dc8/call.htm
Workshop Home Page: http://www.ifla.org/udt/dc8/index.htm
Agenda: http://www.ifla.org/udt/dc8/agenda.htm
2000-10-05: Updated Working Draft: DC-Education
Summary Proposal
This document is a Proposal from the Dublin Core Education Working Group [DCEd]
to the Dublin Core Usage Committee of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative [DCMI].
The content of this document is intended to reflect the consensus reached within
DCEd. DCEd proposes the adoption of the following: (1) two new domain-specific
elements with accompanying element qualifiers for a dc-ed namespace; and (2) a
new domain-specific qualifier to dc:relation for the dc-ed namespace. In addition,
DCEd proposes the endorsement of three elements from the Instructional Management
Systems (IMS) namespace (pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding with IEEE
LTSC).
2000-09-27: New Software Tool: TagGen
- Dublin Core Edition
TagGen Dublin Core is a metatag generator that is use to create metatags in
an enhanced wizard interface. Using the TagGen Wizard you can
add Page Properties, Site Properties, PICS Properties, and all
other search engine related metadata. [More]
2000-09-27: New Project: SCHEMAS
SCHEMAS is an accompanying measure under the European Commission's IST programme,
aiming to guide and educate metadata schema implementers about the status and
proper use of new and emerging metadata standards, and to promote good-practice
guidelines for adapting multiple standards or metadata modules for local use in
customised schemas.
2000-09-26: New Working Draft: Using
Dublin Core
This document is intended as an entry point for users of Dublin Core. For
non-specialists, it will assist them in creating simple descriptive records for
information resources (for example, electronic documents). Specialists may find
the document a useful point of reference to the documentation of Dublin Core,
as it changes and grows.
2000-08-03: New Tool - DC-assist
DC-assist
is a small, flexible help utility for metadata applications and
is intended to complement the help pages embedded within existing
software. Start DC-assist up once at the beginning of your session
for quick and easy access to a set of help pages that provide:
- element and qualifier definitions,
- comments,
- data entry guidelines (not yet available),
- examples,
- links to further information.
DC-assist can be configured for local use using a configuration
file. In the future, it will be enhanced so that as much information
as possible will be extracted from an 'application profile' stored
in a metadata
registry (such as the one being developed by the SCHEMAS
project), directly from RDF schema definition files, or from
some combination of both.
The default DC-assist configuration is based on the elements
defined in the 'Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1:
Reference Description' and the qualifiers defined in the 'Dublin
Core Qualifiers'. This configuration also contains around 100
examples (mainly taken from RFC-2731).
2000-07-18: Tool Upgrade: DC-dot is
now conformant with the recently recommended Dublin Core Qualifiers
DC-dot, UKOLN's web-based Dublin Core generator and editor (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/
) is now conformant with the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set,
Version 1.1: Reference Description and the recently recommended
Dublin Core Qualifiers.
What does this mean?
- All DC-dot help files have been updated in line with the
DC 1.1 reference description.
- Any encoding schemes that DC-dot assigns automatically to
element values conform to the recommended qualifiers.
- The DC 1.1 namespace URI is used in the RDF generated by DC-dot.
- The DC Type pull-down menu offers values from the DCMI Type
encoding scheme.
2000-07-12: New Project: The Victorian
Education Channel
Home Page: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/
(Site is still under development)
The Victorian Education Channel (an educational gateway for the
State of Victoria, Australia) has been developed to integrate
access to educational information and services available on the
web. In particular, it provides integrated access to resources
from the Department of Education, Employment and Training (DEET),
Victoria and associated providers. It also supports discovery
of other resources pertinent to Victorian education. The Channel
is for teachers, students, parents and the community - anyone
requiring information with an educational focus - and covers all
sectors of education from early school to tertiary and vocational.
The Victorian Education Channel uses the standard 15 Dublin
Core (DC) elements and 'audience' as an extra element (as recommended
by the DC-Education Working Group). All elements have qualifiers,
are expressed in RDF, and many have controlled vocabularies or
recommended formats. Elements can be repeated and are not mandatory
although for national interoperability, a minimal set is required.
The DC classification is backed up by a full text indexing capability.
DC records are created using a 'workbench' that combines original
authoring or metadata with harvesting of pre-existing metadata,
in HTML or RDF. The workbench also 'putates' values that the author
can choose to ratify. The records are searched by default or user-structured
searches or browsed.
Searches are complemented by access to the full-text indexes.
Dewey DC has been included as a global taxonomy to complement
the more locally-relevant taxonomies but it is not expected that
all resources will be classified using this facility.
DEET has been actively classifying resources for several years
so the channel is being populated by a combination of imported,
existing records and newly created records. The channel will be
supported by resource authoring, and other systems, that either
contribute to the generation of
classification records or use the information in the records as
data for user-specific applications.
2000-07-11: DUBLIN CORE RELEASES RECOMMENDED
QUALIFIERS
Press
Release: The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI),
an organization leading the development of international standards
to improve electronic resource management and information discovery,
today announced the formal recommendation of the Dublin
Core (DC) Qualifiers. The addition of the DC Qualifiers enhances
the semantic precision of the existing DC Metadata Element Set.
[More
Information]
2000-07-11: NISO Draft Standard: Z39.85-200X
The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set now available for comment
and balloting
A new draft of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES),
based on version 1.1 of DCMES, is now available for comment by
the general public as well as for ballot by NISO (US National
Information Standards Organization) voting members. The NISO Draft
Standard is available as a PDF file linked from http://www.niso.org/Z3985.html.
Public comments are welcome. Links from this page contain forms
for submitting comments, which should be directed back to NISO.
The ballot and comment period for DCMES is July 1 to August 15,
2000.
2000-06-25: Tool Upgrade: DC-dot now
provides support for the W3C XHTML 1.0 Recommendation
DC-dot,
UKOLN's web-based Dublin Core generator and editor now provides
support for the W3C XHTML 1.0 recommendation.
To use this feature, create your DC metadata in the normal way.
Then choose 'XHTML' from the 'Display format' pull down menu.
XHTML 1.0 became a
W3C Recommendation on 26 January 2000. It is a reformulation of
HTML 4.01 in XML, bringing the rigor of XML to HTML, and can be
put to immediate use with existing browsers by following a few
simple guidelines.
The key differences between <meta> elements in XHTML and
HTML 4 are that:
- element names must be in lower-case - <meta> rather
than <META>,
- empty elements (for example, <meta> and <link>)
must end with '/>'.
2000-06-10: New Tool: Online Dublin
Core Extraction Service
Dan Connolly of the W3C has created an online
Dublin Core Extraction Service, which uses XSLT to extract
RDF Dublin Core metadata from XHTML pages. The default transformation
for this form, dc-extract.xsl, converts from the format given
in "Encoding Dublin
Core Metadata in HTML" by John Kunze and produces RDF.
For pages that are not well-formed XHTML, the page to be processed
can first be piped through Dave Raggett's HTML Tidy, courtesy
of the online tidy service.
Connolly stated that he "wrote the guts of dc-extract.xsl
on my palm pilot in Amsterdam after WWW9
in an effort to show how easy it is to
use XSLT to extract RDF from real-world data.
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). http://www.iccu.sbn.it/dublinco.html
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.
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. (http://www.ifla.org/udt/dc8/call.htm)
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.
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).
2000-04-17: Approved Dublin Core Interoperability
Qualifiers Announced
The DC-Usage Committee has completed balloting of the initial
round of proposed Dublin
Core Interoperability Qualifiers. These qualifiers are intended
to promote interoperability among applications that use element
refinements and encoding schemes to increase the semantic precision
of metadata.
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: FAQ has been updated
2000-03-28: Dublin Core Element Set
now available in Maori
As part of a bilingual site for New Zealand educators (www.tki.org.nz),
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.
2000-02-22: New Project - Australasian
Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL)
The Australasian Virtual
Engineering Library (AVEL) is a gateway to quality Australasian
engineering and information technology web-based resources. AVEL
project documentation (including metadata schema and metadata
manual) can be found at
http://avel.library.uq.edu.au/AVELdocumentation.html
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:
March 29-30, 2000: Vancouver, BC, Canada
April 27-28, 2000: Amstelveen, the Netherlands
May 31-June 1, 2000: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
[Workshop
information and registration]
2000-02-10: New Project: Foundations
Project
The Foundations Project
is a State of Minnesota multi-agency collaborative project aimed
at improving public access to environmental and natural resources
data and information. The focus of the Project is on developing
intuitive and easy to use search tools and strategies. Staff and
agency participants catalog many kinds of electronic information
resources using qualified Dublin Core elements. These resources
can be used to develop advanced search and retrieval techniques
that integrate access to this information across agency Web sites.
The search interface is called Bridges (http://bridges.state.mn.us/),
signifying the metaphorical spanning of information across Minnesota
state agencies. Based on project research findings and using principles
of information architecture, a "blueprint" specifying
best practices for Minnesota state environmental Web sites is
being created. As the Foundations Project nears completion, efforts
are in place to bring the successes and blueprint to the remaining
state agencies. For more information, please contact Eileen
Quam, Foundations Project Coordinator & Metadata Specialist.
2000-02-03: Dublin Core version 1.1
approved as a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA)
At last week's meeting of the CEN/ISSS Workshop on Metadata for
Multimedia Information - Dublin Core (MMI-DC), approval in unison
was given for 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
2000-01-26: New Project: Resources
Organization and Searching Specification (ROSS)
Home page: http://ross.lis.ntu.edu.tw
Under the Taiwan Digital Museum Project (sponsored by the National
Science Council), we are developing metadata for various kinds
of objects (historical records, cultural objects, paintings, maps,
photos, butterfly, etc.), and we adopted Dublin Core as our "core
elements."
2000-01-24: New Project: Te Kete Ipurangi
- the Online Learning Centre
This national site, an initiative of New Zealand's Ministry of
Education, is being developed and managed by The
Learning Centre Trust to support the growing online education
community in New Zealand.
The current online version is phase 1 of a two phase project.
The second phase will see the site re-launch early in 2000 as
a bilingual education portal+ site which will provide visitors
with both quality-assured content and links to evaluated online
education resources. The site will continue to be developed and
expanded by the Trust over the next two years and the site invites
contributions from the New Zealand and global education communities.
The Trust is currently in the process of developing a National
Education Standard which will define a Dublin Core education set
and an education metadata set for TKI. The Trust hopes that this
will be developed in collaboration with the Department of Education,
Victoria, Australia so that an Australasian set can be explored.
The Trust plans to make available to authors of other New Zealand
education sites, tools which will assist them to apply the agreed
Education Standards to the content they produce.
For more information about this project, contact the Project
Director, Jill Wilson at jill@tki.org.nz.
2000-01-21: DC-Education Working
Group announces a face-to-face meeting in Australia, 19-20 February
2000
The DC-Education working group will be holding its face-to-face
meeting in Melbourne, Australia on the weekend of February 19-20,
2000. From this meeting, a draft proposal will emerge for possible
education-related qualifiers for the Dublin core elements and
possible additional elements and qualifiers, if necessary. [Call
for participation] [Meeting
Information]
2000-01-21: New Project: Ukrainian
Library Association Metadata Project
Under the auspices of the Ukrainian Library Association, a task
force has been formed. The members of this task force include
G. Jaia Barrett, Deputy Executive
Director, Association of Research Libraries, Svetlana
Sanzhak, Automation Director, Lesia Ukrainka Public Library
of Kyiv, Igor Torlin, Automation
Director, State Library of the Ukraine for Children and Hanna
Voskrensenska, Head, Foreign Publications Department, National
Parliamentary Libary of the Ukraine. They have already posted
a copy of the Dublin Core Element Set in Ukrainian and hope to
provide a template at this site, in the near future, to help web
resources' creators to compile DC metadata and to collect metadata
of Ukrainian web resources. [Web
Site]
2000-01-21: Dublin Core Element Set
now available in Ukrainian
A first step of the DC Implementation task force of the Ukrainian
Library Association, this site posts comments and explanations
about the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and the Dublin Core
Element Set in Ukrainian. [Web
Site]
2000-01-11: DCMI Update newsletter
is now available
The DCMI Update is
part of our attempt to improve communication in our globally distributed
collaboration. The Update will chronicle the highlights of ongoing
activities, serving as a digest of the work of the initiative,
and providing some additional features that we hope will come
from our readership.
1999-12-17: MetaChem is added to the
Project pages
MetaChem is a single
Web-based focal point for access to chemistry information resources
of all kinds. The gateway provides access to Internet information
such as electronic chemistry publications and databases, research
projects, data sources, software, online teaching modules, directories,
conferences etc. In addition, the gateway provides links, through
library catalogues and document delivery services, to print information.
1999-12-16: IETF RFC 2731 "Encoding
Dublin Core Metadata in HTML" is now available.
The Dublin Core is a small set of metadata elements for describing
information resources. This document explains how these elements
are expressed using the META and LINK tags of HTML (4.0). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt
1999-12-06: DCMI web site is now mirrored
in Australia and the U.K.
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is pleased to announce that
two mirrors of the official Dublin Core Metadata Initiative web
site have been established in Australia (http://mirror.nla.gov.au/dc)
and in the UK (http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/dc/
).
1999-11-16: open.gov.uk added to the
Project pages
The open.gov.uk service,
a first entry point to UK public sector information on the internet,
uses the Dublin Core RDF vocabulary to describe each of the resources
available on the site.
1999-10-27: MALVINE added to the Project
pages
The MALVINE project
opens new and enhanced access to disparate holdings of modern
manuscripts and letters, kept and catalogued in European libraries,
archives, documentation centers and museums.
1999-09-27: Open eBook announces final
version of their new 1.0 specification
One element of the Open eBook
Initiative is a specification
for eBook file and format structure based on HTML and XML. It
is important to note that Dublin Core is the metadata standard
being promoted in the specification. The goal of the specification
is to quickly create a critical mass of compelling content. A
publisher will be able to format a title once according to the
specification and the content will be compatible with a wide variety
of reading devices.
1999-09-09: Dublin Core Element Set,
Version 1.1 moves to Recommendation
The Dublin Core Directorate is pleased to announce that a set
of revised element definitions (Dublin
Core Elements, Version 1.1) has made a recommendation.
Publication as a Recommendation
signifies that the specification is stable and is supported for
adoption by the Dublin Core Community.
1999-08-19: Home page for DC7 Workshop is
now available
The DC7 Workshop is scheduled for October 25-27, 1999 in Frankfurt,
Germany. Information about the Workshop, registration, accomodations
and conference agenda will be made available on the Workshop
home page in the coming months.
1999-08-18: CIMI Announces the release
of the Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core
The Guide
to Best Practice: Dublin Core addresses Dublin Core 1.0 as
documented in RFC 2413 and is an immportant result of CIMI's Dublin
Core Testbed, an on-going effort to explore the usability, simplicity,
and technical feasibility of Dublin Core for museum information.
Recommendations expressed in the Guide are based on the experiences
of the Testbed participants and are designed to assist the reader
with several tasks, including: how the Dublin Core standard can
be applied to museum information; mapping existing data elements
sets to the Dublin Core element set; the creation of Dublin Core
records via manual or automated tools; implementing institutional
policies regarding information access and retrieval. It is intended
to be used by information managers, content experts and anyone
in the museum community involved with creating and disseminating
museum information
In addition, the Guide mill be used in a series of workshops
designed for museum professionals. The first two of these workshops
will take place this fall - see the ICHIM99 (http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ichim99.html)
and MCN99 (http://www.mcn.edu/MCN99/)
conference programs for further details. The remainder of the
workshops will run through Spring 2000.
The Guide is available in PDF format from the CIMI web site (http://www.cimi.org/).
1999-08-09: DC Education Working
Group Announced
A new Dublin Core Working Group (DC
Education) has been constituted to discuss and develop a proposal
for the use of Dublin Core metadata in the description of educational
resources . The scope includes educational resources applicable
for many national education communities and cross-sectoral communities
(eg, K-12, further and higher education, and lifelong learning).
1999-08-03: Updated Project Information
The main objective of the first phase of the InDoReg
project was to find a solution for registration of Internet
documents. The objectives of Phase 2 are to implement Phase 1
recommendations, which include the use of Danish Dublin Core.
Netpublikationer is a
project from the Danish Ministry of Research and Information Technology
and the Danish State Information Service to create a standard
for all government publications published on the WWW to be published
with metadata as part of the publication.
1999-08-02: New project
The Australian Government's
Business Entry Point (BEP) is an initiative to make it easier
for Australian businesses to deal with government.
1999-07-26: New projects added to the Project lists:
The Phronesis System
is a single-system software tool that allows the creation of distributed
digital library collections on the Internet. ALGS
was developed in late 1997 as the resource discovery metadata
standard for Australian governments and was endorsed for used
by all levels of government in Australia in November 1998. Meta
Matters is a website intended to help Web content providers
improve the effectiveness of searching for information resources
on the World Wide Web.
1999-07-02: Dublin Core Elements, Version 1.1 moves to Proposed
Recommendation
The Dublin Core Directorate is pleased to announce that a set
of revised element definitions (Dublin
Core Elements, Version 1.1) has been completed and is
available for public review and comment as a Proposed
Recommendation of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
1999-07-02: Working Draft from the Bibliographic Citation
Working Group now available
The Working
Draft from the Bibliographic
Citation Working Group is now available for discussion and
review on the dc-general
listserv through July 19, 1999.
1999-07-01: Call
for Input: DC Qualifiers
Objectives, procedures and deadlines for participating in the
discussion of qualifiers are described in this Call for Input.
Discussion of qualifiers will culminate at the DC-7 workshop in
Frankfurt in October, 1999.
1999-06-21: DC7: Call For Participation
The Dublin Core Directorate invites self nominations (or nominations
of others) for participation in the Seventh Dublin Core Metadata
Workshop, co-sponsored by Die Deutsche Bibliothek and the OCLC
Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
1999-04-01: The
State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative April 1999
Weibel, Stuart. The State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
April 1999. D-Lib Magazine (April 1999), 5(4).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april99/04weibel.html
1999-02-26: RDF
Model and Syntax moves to W3C Recommendation 1999-02-26
We are very pleased to announce that the W3C has granted Recommendation
Status < http://www.w3.org/Press/1999/RDF-REC >
to the RDF Model and Syntax specification < http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/ >.
RDF is the result of several metadata communities bringing together
their functional requirements to provide a robust and flexible
architecture for supporting metadata on the web. Additional information
on RDF including software, projects, presentations, etc. can be
found on the RDF home page< http://www.w3.org/RDF/ >.
1999-01-05: RDF
Model and Syntax moves to W3C Proposed Recommendation 1999-01-05
The W3C has granted Proposed Recommendation Status to the RDF
Model and Syntax specification < http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-rdf-syntax/
>. RDF is the result of several metadata communities bringing
together their needs to provide a robust and flexible architecture
for supporting metadata on the web. Additional information on
RDF including software, projects, and presentations can be found
on the RDF home page < http://www.w3.org/RDF/
>. Public comments and discussion on this work are welcomed
< http://www.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/
>.
1998-11-02: dc:DC
The Sixth Dublin Core Metadata Workshop
November 2-4, 1998
Library of Congress, Washington, DC., USA
1997-11-07: Dublin
Core and Web MetaData Standards Converge in Helsinki 1997-11-07
The National Library of Finland and OCLC cosponsored the fifth
metadata workshop Oct. 6-8 in Helsinki, Finland, with support
from the National Science Foundation and the Coalition for Networked
Information.
Seventy-five experts from libraries, the networking research
community, the digital library research community and content
providers continued work begun in 1995 to reach consensus on conventions
for describing resources on the Internet.
1997-10-03: World
Wide Web Consortium Published Public Draft of Resource Description
Framework (RDF) 1997-10-03
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
today announced the first public draft of a work-in-progress of
the Resource Description
Framework (RDF), providing interoperability between applications
that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web.
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