DCMI Standards Community

Minutes from WG-meeting 12 September 2005

1. Reports

For the ISO-standard the 5 years review will be in alignment with NISO process.

Special session about new CEN Workshop Agreements (CWA) and new work items for MMI-DC (DC-2005 on Thursday).

Dublin Core™ as RFC: still in the editor queue (see details at the WG webpage).

2. Future activities

a: DCMI/MMI-DC documents to be input for formal standards in ISO TC46/SC4

• CWA 15244: Guidance information for the deployment of Dublin Core™ metadata candidate for ISO Technical Report
• CWA's about Applications Profiles are candidates, but more mature and stable documents needed – to be discussed on Advisory Boards meeting Friday

b: Guidelines for national standardization of Dublin Core™

Experience from Finland, Spain and others to be collected and published as guidance for other countries. The chair set up a call for contributions.

c: Next ISO TC46/SC4 meeting:

We agreed about to handle proposals about Collections Description AP.

People from Dublin Core™ community who will participate in this meeting, please contact WG chair.

3. Any Other business

Leif Andresen continues as chair of the working group.