News from 2005
this year's conference and workshop, DC-2005, that was held from 12 through 15 September 2005 in Leganés (Madrid) was attended by 214 attendes from 33 countries. Participants were enthusiastic about the facilities provided by the University of Carlos III and the programme, including four keynotes, five tutorials, fourteen long papers, eighteen short papers, fourteen Working Group meetings and ten special sessions. More information is available on the conference Web site, and the papers are expected to be available soon in the Dublin Core™ Conference Paper Repository.
The organising committee for DC-2005, to take place 12-15 September 2005 at the University Carlos III of Madrid, Legans Campus, has published the final program for the conference and workshop. There is also a print version of the program. We are looking forward to see many of you in Madrid!
Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published a new status report of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, covering the period March to September 2005. More information...
Joseph T. Tennis, Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia, along with Mark Jordan and Brian Owen of Simon Fraser University's WAC Bennett Library and Brad Allen at Siderean Software, have established the Dublin Core™ Conference Paper Repository. The repository provides access to the papers and posters delivered at DCMI Conferences from 2002 through 2004. Addition of the papers of DC-2005 is expected very soon. Built on open source software (MySQL, Linux, and Apache Tomcat) and displayed through Siderean Software's Seamark faceted navigation, this Repository offers the metadata community a focused and easy access to these papers. Access is available through the link to Conference Papers in the left-hand navigation bar on the DCMI Home page.
At their next meeting, in Madrid on 9-10 September 2005, the DCMI Usage Board will review the revised versions of four existing DCMI recommendations: Dublin Core™ Structured Values, the DCMI Box Encoding Scheme, the DCMI Period Encoding Scheme, and the DCMI Point Encoding Scheme.
The DCMI Usage Board will meet in Madrid on 9-10 September 2005, prior to the DC-2005 conference. For more information, please contact the Chair, Tom Baker.
The organising committee for DC-2005, to take place 12-15 September 2005 in Legans (Madrid), has published an updated agenda for the conference and workshop. Go to the registration page to book your place for this event!
A new version of Using Dublin Core, the official user guide to Dublin Core™ metadata, is now available. The updated version includes guidance for new terms approved by the Usage Board, as well as new sections on the DCMI Abstract Model and references to newly recommended documentation available for implementers.
The DCMI Usage Board is pleased to announce the creation of several new terms -- an encoding scheme for National Library of Medicine Classification; Instructional Method; and three elements related to the method, policy, and periodicity of collection accrual (see the Usage Board decisions page). The Usage Board will meet next on 9-10 September 2005, before DC-2005 in Madrid. Please contact Thomas Baker for further information.
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that after the Public Comment period that ended in May 2005, the document Element Refinement in Dublin Core™ Metadata that describes the concept and appropriate use of element refinement as used in Dublin Core™ metadata, is now published as a DCMI Recommended Resource.