News from 2003
The next Usage Board meeting will be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on 16-17 May 2003. Interested members of the Dublin Core™ community should contact the Usage Board chair, Tom Baker for further information.
DCMI and the National Library of Finland are pleased to announce that Finland has become DCMI's first National Affiliate. The DCMI Affiliate program is intended to provide a stronger link between local communities of practice and the Initiative.
Two DC-2003 pre-conference workshops will be offered on Sunday, 28 September 2003:
Metadata Search sponsored by the DCMI Corporate Circle. This all day workshop will focus on internal or site search technology, as opposed to external, Internet or web search technology (although some technology is applicable to both internal and external search applications).
The Contributed Papers deadline for DC-2003 has been extended from May 3, 2003 to May 17, 2003. For more information, see the DC-2003 Web site Call for Papers.
Makx Dekkers and Stuart Weibel have published the latest in the series of State of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative reports in the April issue of DLib Magazine, the online journal for digital library applications.
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to report that the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set standard has been approved. The final text of the ISO 15836 standard and the balloting report, including the response to comments, on the SC4 document log on the ISO TC46/SC4 website: http://www.
Today, DCMI introduces a new Question and Answer service for the community: AskDCMI. This service is based on the virtual reference infrastructure developed by the Information Institute of Syracuse as part of the Virtual Reference Desk project.
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML is now a DCMI Recommendation.
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce the Public Comment period for the document "Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML".
On 22-23 January 2003, a meeting in Washington DC, hosted by NIST, brought together a group of people working in DC-Accessibility and people active in INCITS V2, to discuss the development of an international roadmap of who is doing what work in the field of accessibility.