2000 News and Announcements

2000-12-15, An article by Stuart L. Weibel and Traugott Koch has been published in the December 2000 issue of DLib Magazine.

2000-12-06, The Learning Technology Standards Committee Learning Objects Metadata working group of the IEEE and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative today announced their joint commitment to develop interoperable metadata for learning, education and training.

2000-11-10, PowerPoint and HTML versions of presentations made at the DC-8 Workshop in Ottawa are now available on the DCMI web site.

2000-11-09, DCMI Administrative Metadata Working Group: Send information about your management of metadata: elements and description of use. We are interested in both working projects and proposals for projects.

2000-07-11, The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative today announced the formal recommendation of the Dublin Core Qualifiers.

2000-07-11, A new draft of the Dublin Core Metadata Element set is now available for comment by the general public as well as for ballot by NISO voting members.

2000-06-02, The Italian translation was done by ICCU (Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information). ICCU is responsible for setting guidelines and for producing and disseminating standard national and international cataloguing rules covering all types of materials.

2000-06-01, The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), in conjunction with the National Library of Canada, the IFLA UDT program and OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is please 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.

2000-05-06, A translation by Anne-Marie Vercoustre, an RDF definition of the Dublin Core Element Set, v. 1.1 is also included.

2000-04-17, The DC-Usage committee has complete 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, The Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schema specification has received editorial revisions and is today published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. This specification describes how to use RDF to describe RDF vocabularies.

2000-03-28, The following questions have been added to the FAQ: What is "Simple Dublin Core"?; What is "Qualified Dublin Core"?; What is the Warwick Framework?; Can I add a new element to Dublin Core?; and How do I store names in Dublin Core?

2000-03-28, As part of a bilingual site for New Zealand educators, users will be able to search either in English or Maori or both.

2000-02-16, 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.

2000-02-03, At last week's meeting of the CEN/ISS 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).

2000-01-21, The DC-Education working group will be holding its face-to-face meeting in Melbourne, Australia on the weekend of February 19-20, 2000.

2000-01-21, 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.

2000-10-05, This document is a Draft Proposal of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, and is intended to reflect consensus reached within the Education Working Group of the DCMI. It reports decisions reached by DCEd through its online discussions and face-to-face meetings in Frankfurt (October 25-27, 1999) and Melbourne (February 19-20, 2000).

2000-08-15, The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) allows much descriptive information about resources to be expressed. However, in some applications it is desirable to refine the meanings of the DCMES metadata. A method for refining DCMES is encompassed in an extended model known as Qualified Dublin Core metadata, which requires additional labels and data, known generically as qualifiers. In this recommendation, we describe the methods provided directly by HTML, and explain how to record Qualified DCMES metadata in HTML using the meta element in the document head.

2000-07-28, Document reflects minor editorial changes.

2000-07-28, Document reflects minor editorial changes.

2000-07-28, Document reflects minor editorial changes.

2000-07-28, Document reflects minor editorial changes.

2000-07-16, This document is intended as an entry point for users of Dublin Core. For non-specialists, it will assist in creating simple descriptive records for information resources. Specialists may find the document a useful point of reference to the documentation of Dublin Core as it changes and grows.

2000-07-14, This document explains how to encode the DCES in XML, provides a DTD to validate the documents and describes a method to link them from web pages.

2000-07-11, The DCMI announced today the formal recommendation of the Dublin Core Qualifiers. The addition of the DC Qualifiers enhances the semantic precision of the existing DC Metadata Element Set.

2000-07-11, The DCMI Type Vocabulary provides a general, cross-domain list of approved terms that may be used as values for the Resource Type element to identify the genre of a resource.

2000-07-11, A specification of the spatial limits of a place and methods for encoding this in a text string.

2000-07-11, A syntax for writing a list of label values in a text string.

2000-07-11, A specification of the limits of a time interval and methods for encoding this in a text string.

2000-07-11, A specification for a point location in space and methods for encoding this in a text string.

2000-11-10, PowerPoint and HTML versions of presentations made at the DC-8 Workshop in Ottawa are now available on the DCMI web site.

2000-10-04, The National Library of Canada and OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. are pleased to host the 8th International Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop, co-sponsored by the IFLA UDT Core Programme.

2000-06-01, The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), in conjunction with the National Library of Canada, the IFLA UDT program and OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is please to announce the 8th International Dublin Core Metadata Workshop, to be held October 4-6, 2000 at the National Libary of Canada in Ottawa, Canada.

2000-02-16, 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.

2000-01-21, The DC-Education working group will be holding its face-to-face meeting in Melbourne, Australia on the weekend of February 19-20, 2000.

2000-10-18, The PictureAustralia 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 cultural institutions.

2000-07-12, The Victorian Education Channel (Australia) has been develooped to integrate access to educational information and services available on the web.

2000-05-04, The website for the Francois Rabelais University is indexed with Dublin Core metadata.

2000-02-22, AVEL is a gateway to quality Australasian engineering and information technology resources.

2000-02-10, The Foundations Project is a State of Minnesota multi-agency collaborative project aimed at improving public access to environmental and natural resources and information.

2000-01-26, Under the Taiwan Digital Museum Project, Dublin Core has been adopted as the basis of the metadata developed for various kinds of objects.

2000-01-24, This national site, an initiative of the New Zealand Ministry of Education is a bilingual education potal site for quality-assured content and links to evaluated online education resources.

2000-01-21, Under the auspices of the Ukrainian Library Association this project is to help web resource creators to compile Dublin Core metadata and to collect metadata of Ukrainian web resources.

2000-10-16, Metabrowser is a web browser that shows metadata and web pages simultaneously.

2000-09-27, 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.

2000-08-03, DC-assist is a small, flexible help utility for metadata applicatons and is intended to complement the help pages embedded within existing software.

2000-07-18, DC-dot is now conformant with the recently recommended Dublin Core Qualifiers. This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata suitable for embedding in the page. The generated metadata can be edited or converted to various other formats.

2000-06-25, DC-dot now provides support for the W3C XHTML 1.0 Recommendations. This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata suitable for embedding in the page. The generated metadata can be edited or converted to various other formats.

2000-06-02, The Online Dublin Core Extraction service uses XSLT to extract RDF Dublin Core metadata from XHTML pages.