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Title:               DCMI Usage Board documentation
Creator:             DCMI Usage Board
Identifier:          http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/
Date modified:       2003-06-11
Description:         This page, periodically updated, provides annotated links
                     to process and policy documentation produced by or relevant
                     to the DCMI Usage Board.  Documentation of DCMI metadata
                     terms -- the DCMI Type Vocabulary, the Dublin Core Metadata
                     Element Set version 1.1, plus all elements and qualifiers
                     approved since DCMES 1.1 -- is in the process of being
                     significantly overhauled and will be available at
                     http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/.

== DCMI Usage Board Mission and Policies
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/mission/

   Version history:
   2003-06-11: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2003/06/11/mission/
   2002-07-13: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2002/07/13/mission/
   2001-06-28: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/06/28/mission/
   2001-06-12: http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2001/05/mission.html
   2001-05-07: http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2001/05/DCMI-Usage_mission.htm

   Related links:
   2001-05-07: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/baker/10baker.html

== DCMI Grammatical Principles
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/

   This description complements that of the DCMI Namespace
   Policy (see below), which also defines terms of reference.

   Version history:
   2003-02-07: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2003/02/07/principles/index.shtml
   2002-10-29: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2002/10/29/principles/index.shtml
   2002-10-06: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2002/10/06/principles/index.shtml
    
== Usage Board Administrative Process
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/

   Version history:
   2003-02-07: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2003/02/07/process/
   2002-10-04: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2002/10/04/process/
   2002-09-16: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2002/09/16/process/
   2002-03-18: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2002/03/20/process/
   2001-12-22: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/12/22/process/
   2001-12-08: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/12/08/process/
   2001-12-01: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/11/30/process/
   2001-11-05: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/11/05/process/
   2001-06-27: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/06/27/process/
   2001-06-12: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/06/12/criteria/
   2001-05-02: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/05/17/process/

== Procedure for Approval of DCMI Metadata Terms and Recommendations
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/approval/

   This document complements the Usage Board Administrative
   Process (above) by providing a table and diagram summarizing
   the administrative steps for moving proposals.

   Version history:
   2001-06-27: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/06/27/approval/

== DCMI Usage Board Review of Application Profiles
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/profiles/

   This document defines the term "Application Profile" in
   the context of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and
   outlines the criteria by which the DCMI Usage Board can
   review an Application Profile and assign to it a status.

   Version history:
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2002/07/06/profiles/

== Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
   http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-namespace/

   An XML namespace is a collection of names, identified by a
   URI reference, that are used in XML documents as element
   types and attribute names.  The use of XML namespaces to
   uniquely identify metadata terms allows those terms to be
   unambiguously used across applications, promoting the
   possibility of shared semantics.  DCMI adopts this mechanism
   for the identification of all DCMI terms.  This document
   specifies the conventions used for identifying current and
   future DCMI namespaces.  All DCMI recommendations that make
   use of namespaces will conform to this recommendation.

   Version history:
   2001-10-26: http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/10/26/dcmi-namespace/
   2001-09-17: http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/09/17/dcmi-namespace/
   2001-03-09: http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/03/09/dcmi-namespace/
    
== DCMI Publication Policy
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/publications/

   This document provides an overview of the types of publications
   produced by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, with a summary
   of persistence policies and copyright.

   Version history:
   2001-07-03: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/07/03/publications/
    
== Guidelines for Registration of Vocabulary and Encoding Scheme Qualifiers
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/vocabulary-guidelines/

   Version history:
   2003-05-15: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2003/05/15/vocabulary-guidelines/
   2002-12-02: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2002/12/02/vocabulary-guidelines/
   2002-02-13: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2002/02/13/vocabulary-guidelines/
   2001-10-08: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/10/08/vocabulary-guidelines/
   2001-05-01: http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2001/05/vocabulary-guidelines.htm

== DCMI Usage Board mailing-list discussion
   http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-usage.html

   Membership in the mailing list is limited to members of the
   Usage Board, however all postings to this list are publicly
   accessible, with a lag of several hours, at the JISCMAIL Web
   site.