News from 2000

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Metabrowser is a web browser that shows metadata and web pages simultaneously.

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.

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.

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.

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.