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DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community

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The goals of this community are:

Exchange of information, knowledge and general discussion within the global community to promote interoperability in local or domain specific use of DC. This can include:

• use of DC in local languages, cultures and domains;
• interoperability of metadata in the global community;
• definitions of elements and qualifiers to express language or culture specific information;
• maintenance of element/qualifier definitions in a variety of languages;
• multilingual metadata description and vocabularies;
• reuse of metadata schemas and application profiles in the global community,

Issues arising may include:

• Approval process of non-English vocabularies;
• Encoding of multilingual metadata descriptions;
• Cross- / multi-lingual interoperability of metadata;
• Community model for developing culture- and domain-specific elements / qualifiers;
• Translation and versioning of element/qualifier.

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http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-INTERNATIONAL.html

Background

Dublin Core is now adopted in many languages and outside of a generically bibliographical environment.

Since its beginning in 1997, this Community, formerly the  DC-Multiple Languages Interest Group, has recognized the need for a forum for exchanging such knowledge and experience among the global community. Local knowledge from a diversity of cultural contexts is useful not just locally, but also for the global community. 

The DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community will collaborate with:

• The DCMI Registry Community which maintains an active interest in issues related to the registry and multilingual issues.
• The DCMI Usage Board who ensure an orderly evolution of DCMI metadata vocabularies.

History

• 2009-02-03: DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community Meeting, Berlin, 25th September 2008
• 2007-02-11: DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community Meeting, Singapore, 28th August, 2007
• 2006-03-09: DCMI Localization And Internationalization WG Meeting, Madrid, 13th September, 2005
• 2005-06-22: DC-2005: Call for presentations at DCMI Localization and Internationalization Working Group Meeting, Madrid, 2005
• 2004-12-01: DC-Localization and Internationalization WG report 2004
• 2002-01-02: Changes in Interest Group name and charter. [Cached copy of previous I.G. page]
• 2001-10-25: New Co-Chairs appointed: Olga V. Barysheva and Shigeo Sugimoto
• 1999-10-26: WG Dublin Core in Multiple Languages Meeting, DC-7 (Frankfurt, Germany) Meeting Report
• 1998-10-28: Working group draft report
• 1998-09-23: WG Dublin Core in Multiple Languages Meeting, (Crete) Meeting Report
• 1998-09-06: WG Dublin Core in Multiple Languages Meeting, (Bangkok, Thailand) Meeting Report
• 1998-07-14: Working group draft report
• 1998-06-22: Working group draft report
• 1998-05-25: WG Dublin Core in Multiple Languages Meeting, (Bonn, Germany) Meeting Report
• 1997-10-08: Date constituted
• 1997-03: Draft report
• 1997-03-05: "Metadata Semantics Shared Across Languages: Dublin Cores in languages other than English," by Thomas Baker from the Fourth Dublin Core Workshop, (Canberra, Australia) Meeting Report

Links

• Dublin Core metadata terms in various languages are maintained in the DCMI Dublin Core Metadata Registry at: http://dublincore.org/dcregistry/
• Translations of DCMI Documents into various languages are at: http://dublincore.org/resources/translations/

Documentation

Powerpoint Presentations (HTML)

• A Registry for Dublin Core
• Metadata Grammar: Towards A Convergence Between Dublin Core and RDF

Powerpoint Presentations (PPT & PDF)

2008 Community Meeting Presentations

• Approaches to Multilingual Access in Digital Libraries: The Case of TELDAP.
  Hsueh-Hua Chen & Shu-Jiun Chen, Taiwan E-Learning and Digital Archive Program (TELDAP)

2007 Community Meeting Presentations

• Development of Application Profiles relevant to specialised collections in an African context.
  Patricia Liebetrau. Digital Imaging South Africa (DISA)
• Metadata Projects and Developments Supporting Languages, Cultures and Domains.
  Karen Rollitt, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mataranga o Aotearoa
• Two questions.
  Akira Miyazawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan.
• German Translation of DCMES 1.1 - KIM Competence Center for Interoperable Metadata.
  Christine Frodl (German National Library) and Stefanie Ruehle (State and University Library, Goettingen)

• Dublin Core for an African context
  Pat Liebetrau, Digital Imaging South Africa (DISA)
• National Library of New Zealand: Strategies for interoperability: Metadata projects and activities
  Karen Rollitt and Douglas Campbell, National Library of New Zealand
• Metadata Vocabularies in Subject Gateways for Japanese Regional Public Libraries
  Shigeo Sugimoto, Research Center for Knowledge Communities, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba
• Creating vocabulary for Thai database integration
  Praditta Siripan, Technical Information Access Center, Thailand
• Matching language and cultural requirements. Specialist Task Force STF 287. "User-oriented handling of multicultural issues in multimedia communications"
  Mike Pluke, STF leader, Francoise Petersen, Derek Pollard, Bianca Szalai

• A Registry for Dublin Core
• Metadata Grammar: Towards A Convergence Between Dublin Core and RDF

Status of DC translations

• 2002 Status of translations of DC in non-English languages
• 2004 Survey of DCMES: standard - translations - use