News from 2002

The Usage Board announces the availability for review and public comment proposals from three DCMI working groups. Proposals come from the DCMI Type Working group, the DCMI Citation Working group and six proposals from the DCMI Libraries Working group.

The DCMI-EU proposal has been evaluated by the Eurpoean Commission in the usual procedure with independent evaluators. We have now received the outcome of this evaluation.

Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published the next status report of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, looking at all activities that have taken place since the DC-2002 Conference and Workshop in Tokyo, October 2002. More information...

Authored by Erik Duval, Wayne Hodges, Stuart Sutton, and Stu Weibel, this paper emerged as part of a plan to bring the metadata efforts of DCMI and the IEEE LOM closer together. It reflects what some of the leaders of both groups feel to be common princples shared by our communities. We feel that these principles are likely to be common to other metadata communities as well, and that this paper will advance the common understandings necessary to improve adoption of useful metadata in many areas.

The Norwegian Committee on Cataloguing has now published the Norwegian translation of Dublin Core™ version 1.1 on its website. Version 1.1 was translated for the Norwegian Committee on Cataloguing by Frank B. Haugen and Carol van Nuys.

The joint project of two national libraries: the National library of Russia (St.-Petersburg) and Russian state library (Moscow). The main aim of the register is to provide the verified information sources primarily for specialists in librarianship, information sciences, humanities and social sciences. Database supplied with rubricator that describes subject coverage. Records internal format is Dublin Core™. Resources description language is Russian.

On 28 February 2002, a proposal has been submitted to the European Commission's IST Programme for a Thematic Network called DCMI-EU.

The Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative Directorate is pleased to announce the publication of the 2002 Progress report and Workplan in the February 2002 issue of D-Lib Magazine.

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This group is a forum for individuals and organisations involved in implementing Dublin Core™ in the environmental domain, with the objective to establish representation of the domain in DCMI and to promote interoperability within the domain through the use of Dublin Core™. It will collect information on usage of the Dublin Core™ in the domain, work on establishing guidelines and develop an Application Profile for the environmental domain. [More Information]