DCMI News 2009

2009-06-08, The organizing committee for DC-2009, the ninth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009, is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for DC-2009: Eunchul Lee, Michael Crandall and Alistair Miles.
The Call for Tutorials for DC-2009 is now closed.

2009-05-18, The submission deadline for the Call for Tutorials for DC-2009 has been extended to 1 June 2009. The call remains open for proposals for Introductory and Advanced tutorials. Successful proposals will be advised by 22 June 2009, in line with notification of paper acceptance for the main conference.

2009-05-18, The DCMI Executive would like to remind organizations involved in DCMI activities of the DCMI Partnership Program. The Partnership Program is intended for organizations that want to associate themselves with DCMI and provide financial support to the activities of DCMI. Benefits include a mention of the Partner on the DCMI Web site and the use by the Partner of a DCMI Partnership Program logo on their materials. For further information see the DCMI Partnership Program page.

2009-05-18, A revised "Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles" by Karen Coyle and Thomas Baker has been published as a DCMI Recommended Resource. Aimed at a broad audience of application profile developers, the document walks through the process of creating a simple profile, using examples to illustrate key components and metadata design principles.

2009-05-18, The DCMI Tools Community is excited to announce a workshop on issues and challenges regarding the implementation of metadata schemes. The Workshop will take place in Zadar, Croatia, on Friday 29 May 2009 during the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference. Speakers will include Cesare Concordia (Europeana project team) and Dan Brickley (W3C Semantic web specialist). The Community moderators, Thomas Severiens and Seth van Hooland will also talk about the new policy regarding the set of metadata tools listed on the DCMI Tools page.

2009-05-18, The DCMI Social Tagging Community has issued a Call for Participation for a Workshop to be held at the ELPUB2009 Conference on 10 June 2009 in the Sala Napoleonica at the Università di Milano, Palazzo Greppi, Via S. Antonio 10, Milano, Italy. Submissions should be sent to Eva Méndez and Ana Alice Baptista. For more information, please see the announcement on the Wiki of the DCMI Social Tagging Community.

2009-05-11, The Call for Papers for DC-2009, this year's International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009, is now closed. The Program Committee will now start reviewing the received papers, project reports and posters. Notifications of acceptance are scheduled to be sent out on 22 June 2009. Please note that the Call for Tutorials and the Call for Sponsors are still open.

2009-05-11, As of today, the Korean Library Association (KLA) has joined the National Library of Korea (NLK) as co-host for DC-2009 to be held 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea. KLA will take on the responsibility for conference event operations and management of sponsorship, while NLK will be responsible for overall coordination and management of the conference program.

2009-05-11, DCMI is interested to establish contact with organizations that are interested to host next year's conference and workshop in North America and therefore has published a Call for Expressions of Interest. Interested organizations are invited to respond to this call by 8 June 2009.

2009-05-11, In the last months, two new members have been appointed to the DCMI Oversight Committee. In early 2009, Schubert Foo was appointed as representative of the National Library Board Singapore, while recently Samantha Starmer was appointed as the fourth independent member of the Oversight Committee. With those appointments, the Oversight Committee is now on full strength with five members representing the DCMI Members and four independent members.

2009-05-01, "Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata" has been published as a Recommended Resource. The document discusses modeling choices involved in designing metadata applications for different types of interoperability. At Level 1, applications use data components with shared natural-language definitions. At Level 2, data is based on the formal-semantic model of the W3C Resource Description Framework (as in Linked Data). At Levels 3 and 4, data also shares syntactic constraints based on the DCMI Abstract Model. The document aims at providing a point of reference for evaluating interoperability among a variety of metadata implementations. The authors expect this document to evolve as the trade-offs and benefits of interoperability at different levels are explored and welcome feedback from its readers.

2009-04-20, The Program Committee for DC-2009, to be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009 and hosted by the National Library of Korea has extended the deadline for the submission of papers to 8 May 2009. For more information, see the Call for Papers.

2009-04-20, The chairs of the DC-2009 Tutorial Committee, John Roberts of Archives New Zealand and Heesop Kim of Kyungpook National University Korea, have published a Call for Tutorials for DC-2009, to be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009 and hosted by the National Library of Korea. It is the intention to include both Introductory and Advanced tutorials in the program, and proposals in both categories are welcome as described in the call text. The Call is open until 15 May 2009.

2009-03-31, A revised version of the International Standard ISO 15836 has been published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO): ISO 15836:2009 Information and documentation -- The Dublin Core metadata element set. The text of the standard has been brought in line with the January 2008 version of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set available on the DCMI Web site.

2009-03-31, The March 2009 Status Report is now available, covering the period from September 2008 through March 2009. Read the report...

2009-03-03, In further preparation for DC-2009, to be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009 and hosted by the National Library of Korea, the Call for Sponsors was published today on the conference Web site. Please note that the Call for Papers is still open until 24 April 2009.

2009-03-03, The Usage Board has published a review of the Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP), which was found to conform to the profile review criteria in all respects but one. The specific point on which SWAP does not follow the criteria relates to the matching algorithm specified in the Description Set Profile specification, currently still a working draft on which feedback is being sought. The issue could be resolved either by a small revision in SWAP or by a change in the matching algorithm.

2009-02-10, Following a workshop session on Metadata for Scientific Datasets at DC-2008, a new DCMI Community has been set up under the name of the DCMI Science and Metadata Community. We welcome participation from individuals and organizations interested in all aspects of metadata relating to scientific data. To learn more about this community, or become involved, visit the Community's website.

2009-01-12, The National Library of Korea, the host for DC-2009, to be held 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea, has opened the conference Web site. The Call for Papers for the conference is open until 24 April 2009. Submissions are being invited for full papers, project reports and posters.

2009-01-05, The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has completed the legal steps for incorporation as a public, not-for-profit Company limited by Guarantee in Singapore. The founding members of the new legal entity are the National Library Board Singapore and the National Library of Finland. The other DCMI Affiliates, the Joint Information Systems Commission (JISC) in the UK, the National Library, National Archives and the State Services Commission of New Zealand and the National Library of Korea, will become Members in the weeks ahead. Read more...

2009-01-05, A completely new version of the DCMI Conference Paper repository has been installed at the National Library of Korea. The new repository includes the proceedings of all conferences from Tokyo 2001 until Berlin 2008.

2009-01-05, The DCMI Usage Board has published a structured set of criteria for reviewing application profiles based on the DCMI Abstract Model.