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= DCMI Date Encoding Task Force Wiki =

||<)tablewidth="100%"tablebgcolor="#ffffcc">'''Chair''': 	||Douglas Campbell, National Library of New Zealand.||
||<)>'''Status''': 	||This task force is currently active.||
||<)>'''Established''': 	||2003-10-03 (re-established)||
||<)>'''Charter''': 	||The purpose of the DCMI Date Encoding Task Force is to develop and implement one or more encoding formats that support the interchange of common types of dates and times as identified by the Dublin Core community. ||

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=== Meetings of the DC-Date Working Group ===

 * [wiki:Self:DC2007MeetingMinutes DC-2007 meeting minutes] from the DC-Date Task Force session on Wednesday 29th August 2007 during the [http://www.dc2007.sg/ DC-2007] conference in Singapore.
 * [wiki:Self:DC2006MeetingMinutes DC-2006 meeting minutes] from the DC-Date Working Group session on Friday 6th October 2006 during the [http://dc2006.ucol.mx/ DC-2006] conference in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.

== Documents under construction ==

   * Document the requirements for interoperable representation of dates:
    *  [wiki:Self:DateRequirements Date representation requirements]
   * Implement date encoding schemes:
    *  [http://people.opera.com/charlesm/2006/shortdate/ Date and Time Short Form] - A note for submission to W3C

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