Title:               DCMI Usage Board documentation
Maintainer:          Thomas Baker, Usage Board Chair
Identifier:          http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/
Latest version:      http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/
Installed as:        http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/index.shtml
Date Last Modified:  2002-04-27
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/.


== Mission and Principles
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/mission/

   This document describes the scope and mission of the DCMI Usage Board,
   summarizing the principles of "grammar" according to which it maintains
   the metadata vocabularies of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.  This
   description complements that of the DCMI Namespace Policy (see below), 
   which also defines terms of reference.

   Previous versions:
   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
    
== Usage Board Administrative Process
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/

   Previous versions:
   2002-03-18: http://128.253.121.110/DC-UB/DC-UBprocess8.html
   2001-12-22: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/dcmi/DC-UBprocess7.html
   2001-12-08: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/dcmi/DC-UBprocess6.html
   2001-12-01: http://128.253.121.110/DC-UB/DC-UBprocess5.html
   2001-11-05: http://128.253.121.110/DC-UB/DC-UBprocess4.html
   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://128.253.121.110/DC-UB/DC-UBprocess.html

== Procedure for Approval of DCMI Metadata Terms and Recommendations

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

   Previous versions:
   2001-06-27: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/06/27/approval/

== 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.

   Previous versions:
   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.

   Previous versions:
   2001-07-03: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/07/03/publications/
    
== Guidelines for Vocabulary and Encoding Scheme Qualifiers
   http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/vocabulary-guidelines/

   Previous versions:
   2002-03-23: http://www.lub.lu.se/~traugott/drafts/vocab-guide3.html
   2001-10-08: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/2001/10/08/vocabulary-guidelines/
   2001-10-01: http://www.lub.lu.se/~traugott/drafts/vocab-guide2.html
   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.