DCMI Update

May 2001

• 2001-04-25 Call for Participation to the DC-2001: International Conference on Dublin Core Metadata Applications, October 22-26, 2001, Tokyo, Japan.
• 2001-04-25 A New Version of "Using Dublin Core" is now available for public comment until May 15, 2001. Comments should be sent to the DC-General Mailing List.

News Briefs

• 2001-05-01 DCMI Status Report - April 2001 is now available
• 2001-04-25 PRISM Working Group announces release of version 1.0 of the PRISM metadata specification
• 2001-04-25 DCMI Libraries Working Group survey results
• 2001-04-25 MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative uses Dublin Core-based metadata
• 2001-02-21 Announcement: New Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Web Site
• 2001-01-30 DCMI hires Project Manager
• 2001-01-29 Full Translations of Element Set and Qualifiers are now available in Russian
• 2001-01-21 NISO ballot version of Dublin Core
• 2001-01-23 "Using Dublin Core" Usage Guide now available in French
• 2001-01-16 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Announces New Proposed Recommendation
• 2001-01-02 Dublin Core Element set now available in Polish
• 2000-12-15 D-Lib Magazine article: The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, Future Directions
• 2000-12-06: Press Release: E-Learning Takes Important Step Forward
• 2000-11-10 Presentations from DC-8 Workshop Now Available
• 2000-10-05 DC-Education Summary Proposal
• 2000-08-15 New Document: Recording qualified Dublin Core metadata in HTML meta elements
• 2000-07-28 Updated Documents: DCMI Box Encoding Scheme, DCMI Dublin Core Structured Values, DCMI Period Encoding Scheme, DCMI Point Encoding Scheme.
• 2000-07-11 Press Release: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Releases Recommend Qualifiers

Working Group Updates

• 2001-03-07 New working group: DCMI Tools Working Group

Advisory Committee Updates

• Palle Aagaard is new co-chair of the DCMI Government Working Group
• Ann Apps is new chair of the DCMI Type Working Group
• José Borbinha is new chair of the DCMI Agents Working Group
• 2001-02-09 Eric Miller to head W3C Semantic Web Activity

Workshop News

• DC-2001: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, October 22-26, 200, Tokyo, Japan
• 8th International Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop (DC-8), October 4-6, 2000, Ottawa Canada

Project and Tool Updates

• 2000-10-18 Project: PictureAustralia
• 2000-10-16 Tool: Metabrowser
• 2000-09-27 Tool: TagGen - Dublin Core Edition
• 2000-08-03 Tool: DC-assist
• 2000-07-18 Tool: DC-dot
• 2000-07-12 Project: Victorian Education Channel

Web Site Changes

• 2001-02-21 Announcement: New Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Web Site
• 2001-01-16 DCMI announces prerelease of new web site

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