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The DCMI Education Community is focusing on several work items this year:

Vocabularies for education are a focus for the Community at all times. For more on DC-Ed work on vocabularies for the Application Profile, go directly to the Vocabularies page.

DC-Ed at DC-2007 Singapore

The DC-Ed Community met face-to-face in Singapore in August 2007. A report from the meeting, with discussion, actions and workplan, is available [WWW]here. It was decided that a new DC-Education Application Profile Task Group would be formed.

The DC-Education Application Profile page briefly summarises work to date and the AP workplan. Meeting slides detailing work completed for 2006/2007, and noting discussion points, are available here: DC-Ed_Community_Meeting_DC2007_slides.pwz

Shu-Jiun (Sophy) Chen reported at the meeting on the educational application profile work being carried out at the National Digital Archives Program, Taiwan. Powerpoint slides (4.4MB): DC-Ed_Report_on_Taiwanese_Educational_AP.pwz.

DC-Ed at JISC-CETIS Metadata SIG Meeting, April 2007

The [WWW]JISC-CETIS Metadata and Repositories SIG had a [WWW]meeting in Manchester, England on 16 April 2007 focussing on DC and educational metadata. DC-Ed Community Moderator Sarah Currier was among the presenters, talking about DC-Ed Application Profile work and gathering input and feedback from the gathered practitioners and experts. Pete Johnston of UKOLN was also there, and presented on the DCAM, and the [Self]Joint DCMI/IEEE LTSC Taskforce work, among other presenters talking about more general related DC work. Follow the [WWW]meeting link to see all of the presentations and download audio files. Sarah has posted a summary of the discussion on the four vocabulary criteria at JISC-CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG Meeting, 16 April 2007 here on the Wiki: JISC CETIS MDR SIG Meeting Report

Pete also [WWW]posted on the meeting at his eFoundations blog.

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