News

A NISO/DCMI Webinar with John Fereira will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time on 22 May 2013 (17:00 UTC - see World Clock: http://bit.

The DC-2013 Special Session titled Long-term Preservation and Governance of RDF Vocabularies will be sponsored by W3C and will focuses on issues related to the usability of RDF vocabularies in the long term (as defined in "decades") including continued access to documentation, inheritance of ownership and maintenance responsibility, and the continued resolvability of domain names.

A NISO/DCMI Webinar with Alan Danskin of The British Library will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time (17:00 UTC) on 24 April 2013.

DCMI seeks community feedback on a proposed DCMI Recommended Resource. The deadline for feedback is 7 April 2013. The DCMI Metadata Provenance Task Group is collaborating with the W3C Provenance Working Group on a mapping from Dublin Core™ terms to the PROV provenance ontology, currently a W3C Proposed Recommendation.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced the publication of a maintenance revision of The Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set (ANSI/NISO Z39.

DCMI and iPRES are pleased to announce that they will be holding a Joint Doctoral Symposium on 2 September 2013 at their collocated conferences in Lisbon, Portugal.

The deadline for submissions to DC-2013 in Lisbon has been set for 29 March. The call for participation is available at http://purl.

A Working Draft of "Dublin Core™ to PROV Mapping" has been made available by W3C at http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-dc-20121211/. The document provides a mapping between the PROV-O OWL2 ontology and the Dublin Core™ Terms Vocabulary.

Ana Alice Baptista, Universidade do Minho of Braga, Portugal and Eva M. Méndez, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain have been named to the DC-2013 Conference Committee.

A NISO/DCMI Webinar with Eric Miller will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time (18:00 UTC) on 23 January 2013. Registration for this webinar closes 23 January 2013 at 12:00PM Eastern (17:00 UTC).